The proposed new MMS 5-Year Oil Lease plan is just plain scary. This plan was drawn up by the Bush Administration in their waning hours and is now the responsibility of Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.
There are 4 hearings coming up in April to hear from the public on this proposed plan. We should voice our opposition loudly!
Monday, April 6, 2009 - Atlantic City, New Jersey
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - New Orleans, Louisiana
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - Anchorage, Alaska
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - San Francisco, California
You can find out more about about the hearings here.
Can't make the hearing - click here for other ways to chime in.
Click here to download a pdf 1-pager on the lease plan that also includes more detailed maps.
Stay tuned on Not the Answer for more information on these hearings.
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A Facebook Event page has been created for the first, and what will undoubtedly be the biggest public hearing on this issue. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56858724247#/event.php?eid=56858724247. I predict it will have several hundred attendees very soon. Before creating the event I looked around Facebook to see if anyone else had made such a page. No one had, but I did find these groups. This one called Start Domestic Oil Production and Oil Shale Production Today! has a whopping 17 members. http://www.facebook.com/s.php?init=q&q=OCS%20Drilling&ref=ts&sid=e16d845594b13f7b18c9d4a7893d94d3#/group.php?sid=e16d845594b13f7b18c9d4a7893d94d3&gid=20366441265
And also, American Energy Freedom Day http://www.facebook.com/s.php?init=q&q=OCS%20Drilling&ref=ts&sid=e16d845594b13f7b18c9d4a7893d94d3#/group.php?sid=e16d845594b13f7b18c9d4a7893d94d3&gid=30070247467. It has more members, 289, but it has been around for 7 months. Lame.
John Weber
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