HOME PAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS, Print Editions, Newsletter PRODUCTS READ THE PETROLEUM NEWS ARCHIVE! ADVERTISING INFORMATION EVENTS PETROLEUM NEWS BAKKEN MINING NEWS

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry
April 2006

Vol. 11, No. 18 Week of April 30, 2006

Prince William Sound RCAC board to meet

The Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council will hold its quarterly board meeting May 2-3 at the Valdez Convention and Civic Center. The meeting, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. May 2 and 8 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. May 3, is open to the public except for executive sessions.

The board will consider a proposed position calling for a ban on the use of chemical oil-spill dispersants in Prince William Sound and will elect a new executive board.

Other agenda items include: a presentation on the council’s new automated identification system, which tracks tankers, tugs and other vessels in Prince William Sound; an update on efforts to secure regulation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of air pollution from the ballast water treatment facility at Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.’s Valdez tanker terminal; a presentation on opposition to Alyeska’s efforts to reduce frequency of inspections of the terminal’s 14 crude oil storage tanks; a presentation on corrosion systems at the Valdez terminal; and an update on the status of the Prince William Sound tanker escort system.

—Petroleum News






Petroleum News - Phone: 1-907 522-9469 - Fax: 1-907 522-9583
[email protected] --- http://www.petroleumnews.com ---
S U B S C R I B E

Copyright Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska, LLC (Petroleum News)(PNA)©2013 All rights reserved. The content of this article and web site may not be copied, replaced, distributed, published, displayed or transferred in any form or by any means except with the prior written permission of Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska, LLC (Petroleum News)(PNA). Copyright infringement is a violation of federal law subject to criminal and civil penalties.