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Current Action Alert
Oil Shale and Tar Sands Programmatic EIS
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is requesting public comment on its Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for oil shale and tar sands development.
This EIS covers the Piceance and Washakie Basins in Colorado, the Uinta Basin in Utah, and the Green River and Washakie Basins in Wyoming for oil shale development. It covers parts of the Colorado Plateau in Utah for tar sands development.
In the EIS the BLM provides three programmatic alternatives:
- Programmatic Alternative A – no changes from present; no expected development
- Programmatic Alternative B – designated by BLM as the “preferred alternative,” it opens the largest acreage for development.
- Programmatic Alternative C – functionally similar to Programmatic Alternative B but makes less acreage available for development.
I invite interested AAPG, EMD, and DPA members to submit their views to BLM on the development of these resources and indicate a preferred Programmatic Alternative.
Deadline: April 21, 2008
Submit comments and get more information at http://www.aapg.org/geoDC/ActionAlert/0803marEIStarsands.cfm.
Sincerely,
Carl J. Smith, Chair
DPA Government Affairs Committee
North Aleutian Basin (aka Bristol Bay Area of Alaska)
The comment period closed June 30, 2007.
Minerals Management Services' Five-Year Plan for Outer Continental Shelf Access Results
The comment period closed November 24. AAPG's involvement due to the Action Alert contributed to the final results. AAPG's involvement needs to be recognized!Issued 08/28/2006
Occasionally, the AAPG DPA Governmental Affairs Committee (GAC) will be sending email AAPG GAC Action Alerts. An action alert will inform you about a current Executive Branch and/or Congressional issue that will potentially affect the oil and gas industry.
David Curtiss, Director of the AAPG Office of Geoscience and Energy in Washington, DC, will identify the necessity for alerts, and he will work with the Chairperson of the GAC to issue the alert. The alert will be a short e-mail that will highlight the issue and direct you to this Web site. Each alert will consist of background, a suggested response, support information, and the place to submit your comments.
You are welcome to comment on the issues in the way that suits you, if you want to comment at all. Of course, you are under no obligation to do anything, but the GAC encourages you to provide your comments whenever you can. This will support the GEO-DC's liaison work in Washington, DC and through this effort AAPG's reputation as a credible provider of pertinent geologically-based information will grow and become more valuable to those who are shaping our Nation's polices and laws. Won't you please help?
The action alerts are now being issued directly from AAPG in Tulsa. Send an email to Norma Newby at nnewby@aapg.org .
Thank you,