If the Alaska LNG Project begins construction of the liquefaction facility in Nikiski, the 5,000 plus workers required for building the plant could place increased fishing strain on the Kenai River.
Board Member Ricky Gease says the Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board plans to submit comments regarding those concerns to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Gease: “What are they going to do on their time off if we have quite a few more folks here that want to enjoy the outdoor recreational opportunities here, what are going to be the impacts on the existing infrastructure. So that’s the issue that KRSMA Board will identify to FERC in a letter and submit it by December 4.”
He says Borough Special Oil and Gas Assistant Larry Persily presented a timeline of the proposed project at the board’s meeting last Thursday.
Gease: “The next year 2016, would be a study and then he indicated that in 2017 the EIS first draft would be out and available for public comment.”
Persily also co-hosted a community meeting in Nikiski last Thursday evening with Borough Mayor Mike Navarre who says that the was the first of the borough’s new monthly meeting. The next will take place at 6:30 pm, December 4 at the Nikiski Recreation Center.
FERC is accepting public comments on environmental concerns about the Alaska LNG Project until December 4.