Comments and Hearings on Coastal Drilling

[executrix]

The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Management is accepting comments until March 9 on its Very Beautiful and Brilliant Plan* to allow 90% of the coast to be used to drill for oil. There is also a schedule of public hearings, although several of them have been marked "postponed" FWIW. For the hearing schedule and the comment form,

https://sierra.secure.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0101303&id=7010Z000001P6KJQA0&data=244fc4fb75bca46fdd0b079a13c824e70abecb1d9c33d69f658a95583c1058c883f59830bcab095ce16e9745584d5b50&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sierraclub&utm_campaign=ourwildamerica&utm_content=offshore

If you've never submitted a comment to an administrative agency online, it's easy and fun! The agencies rely on being able to say that the rule must be OK because hardly anybody opposed it. They're still allowed to commit Dirty Deeds at the Crossroads, but they can't say that they had the endorsement of the public, and the comment stream can be influential on judges hearing the inevitable challenges to the rule.



*May contain sarcasm

Comments

[venturous]

I'm sure the sierra club is submitting these somehow, but here's a link to the REAL comments page:

https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=BOEM-2017-0074


and here is the BOEM page about the initiative. Its better to go right to the source and use your own words. I notice that they are asking for facts and info about how people use the coasts and the ocean - I work for a water- related agency (not DOI)

[executrix]

Thanks! Do you have some suggested resources to learn more about coastal/ocean usage?