EPA Recommends Alternative for Alaska's Cook Inlet Pipeline Crossing

摘要

Filings from federal, state and municipal agencies, environmental and business groups and the public piled in on the last two days for comment on the Alaska LNG project's draft environmental impact statement.And while most public comments were supportive of the state-led undertaking to move North Slope gas to market, several filings pointed to deficiencies in the review.Challengers either opposed the project outright over environmental concerns or supported a different route for the north-to-south gas pipeline and a different site for the LNG export terminal than Nikiski, on Cook Inlet.Others did not contest the project but found specific construction plans lacking."We found multiple instances in the draft EIS where details concerning permafrost construction techniques and monitoring efforts were not well explained," said the filing by the Office of Project Management and Permitting at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. "Therefore, the state recommends further detail and clarification on these topics."