Risk assessment workshop, meetings set

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has scheduled a public workshop and public meetings on the Alaska Risk Assessment of oil and gas infrastructure.

The public workshop will be May 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the second floor public conference room at the Z.J. Loussac Library in Anchorage.

Risk assessment contractors will present a briefing on the proposed risk assessment methodology, including a walk through of the methods with examples of how the methods will apply to specific facilities.

There will be facilitated discussion following the presentation and DEC said the Anchorage workshop is targeted “for people with a high interest in the project that are willing to take the time to read and understand the proposed methodology report” in advance of the meeting.

The report is available online at

www.dec.state.ak.us/spar/ipp/ara/documents.htm.

Public meetings are scheduled in other locations to allow the public to drop in and learn more about the Alaska Risk Assessment program. Meetings are from 4-7:30 p.m., with short briefings at 4:30 and again at 6:30:

• May 11, Challenger Learning Center, Kenai;

• May 12, Valdez Civic & Convention Center;

• May 13, UAF Wood Center, Fairbanks; and

• June 9, Barrow at a location to be determined.

—Petroleum News