Alaska Senator Criticizes Dearth of Consultation on OCS

摘要

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is criticizing what she asserts is the Obama administration's lack of consultation with her state as a draft outer continental shelf (OCS) oil and natural gas leasing program (DPP) for 2017 through 2022 is being developed. Murkowski leveled her criticisms in comments submitted to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) earlier this month. "The fact that the president's moratorium withdrawing some 9.8 million acres of waters off Alaska's coast, including the Hanna Shoal, identified in the draft program as a potential deferral, was released to. the public the very same day as the DPP illustrates a willful disregard for the public process and undermines public trust in the process," the senator wrote to BOEM.