Newly appointed Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Oil and Gas Assistant Larry Persily attended meetings with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about the Alaska LNG Project in Anchorage last week.
Persily: “Representatives from the Alaska LNG teams were there, there were probably a couple dozen from the Alaska LNG on soils, air quality, water quality, socioeconomic, transportation, all the different issues that will be covered in the Impact Statement and there were representatives from a couple dozen different federal agencies also in attendance to discuss the timing, the data needs, what will be covered in the Environmental Impact Statement.”
The scoping period which accepts public comment on the EIS is open until December 4.
He said the agencies decided the community meetings on it should be in the fall of 2015 but have not yet been individually scheduled.
Persily: “Under scoping is when FERC goes to the communities and goes to the public and says, ‘What issues do you want covered in the Environmental Impact Statement? Tell us now so we can make sure the project developer covers all those issues and FERC looks at all those issues.”
Persily will attend the next Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting on April 7 with an update on where the Alaska LNG Project is up to.