Alaska Pipeline Project environmental impact scoping meeting
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Dena'ina Center, Tikahtnu Room, 600 W. Seventh Ave.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission invites the public to offer input on the environmental review of the proposed Alaska North Slope natural gas pipeline project, with a scoping meeting set for 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage. The meeting will start with presentations on the project and the environmental review process, followed by public comment. Monday's meeting will be streamed live by the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects. The web stream will be available at www.arcticgas.gov, where it also will be available for viewing after the event. However, public comment will only be taken in person or by submitting written comments directly to FERC by using its eComment process (Docket No. PF09-011).
The Alaska Pipeline Project, a partnership of TransCanada and ExxonMobil, is proposing to build a gas pipeline that would span 803 miles of Alaska – from Point Thomson to Prudhoe Bay to the Canadian border – en route to a terminus at the British Columbia-Alberta border. The proposal calls for construction to start in 2016, with pipeline startup in late 2020. The pipeline would carry 4.5 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas from North Slope fields, targeting Lower 48 markets.
In August, FERC announced it will prepare an environmental impact statement on the Alaska portion of the project. FERC staff members are holding seven scoping meetings in Alaska to help define what environmental effects the impact statement will consider. The Anchorage meeting is the last one on the schedule.
The project sponsor's draft environmental reports filed with FERC last month are available on our environmental review documents page and from FERC's eLibrary (Docket No. PF09-011). The more than 4,500 pages of documents – called draft resource reports – detail and discuss the project's potential impact on soils, vegetation, streams, lakes, wetlands, water quality, wildlife, fish and other resources along the pipeline corridor to the Canadian border.
More information about FERC's environmental impact statement process and the project is available in the Notice of Intent and attached documents or by visiting our NEPA page. For additional information on project documents, go to FERC's eLibrary, click on General Search, and enter Docket No. PF09-011. Or call 868-208-3372.
