Center for Biological Diversity filed 4 comments on this docket between Jun 21, 2018 and Jun 22, 2018. 407 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 3063d ago.
Attached please find the second set of references cited in comments submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, and Wishtoyo Foundation.
Attached please find comments from the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, and Wishtoyo Foundation on BOEM's 2019-2024 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program. Cited references are also attached.
Please see the attached comments on the Draft Proposed Program from Gulf Restoration Network, Sierra Club, Center For Biological Diversity, and Earthjustice
Please see the attached for 32,184 comments from supporters with the Center for Biological Diversity. Many of these comments have been personalized, so your close review is appreciated. These comments urge you to protect our oceans and climate from expanded offshore drilling, and ask that you remove all planning areas from the United States' five-year leasing proposal. Burning the fossil fuels in the areas currently proposed would contribute 49.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide pollution, the equivalent of the emissions from 10.6 billion cars driven for a year. Expanding offshore drilling will deepen the climate crisis, fueling extreme weather events and driving sea-level rise. This is a road we cannot afford to go down. The best science shows that the United States should end offshore oil and gas leasing in all regions, including the Arctic. Catastrophic oil spills -- an inevitable consequence of offshore drilling -- destroy coastal communities and devastate marine life. And the federal government has already concluded that there would be a 75 percent chance of a major oil spill if development and production in the Chukchi Sea moved forward under even a single large lease sale. A major oil spill in the Arctic would be impossible to clean up. More than 150 municipalities on the West and East coasts have formally voiced opposition to offshore drilling. And polls show that the majority of Americans support permanently protecting the Arctic Ocean from new oil and gas drilling. What's more, defense experts warn that Arctic drilling threatens national security, and keeping the eastern Gulf of Mexico off-limits to new drilling is critical to U.S. military readiness. Please do the right thing -- remove all planning areas from the five-year leasing proposal. Sincerely, Cybele Knowles Communications Associate Center for Biological Diversity P.O. Box 710, Tucson, AZ 85702-0710 (520) 623-5252 x 324 www.biologicaldiversity.org
Notice of Availability (NOA) of the 2019-2024 Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program and Notice of Intent (NOI) to Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
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