BLM schedules northeast NPR-A workshop

The federal Bureau of Land Management will host the second workshop for the northeast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska regional mitigation strategy Sept. 24-25 in Barrow.

The workshop, open to the public, will be at the Inupiat Heritage Center from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 24 and from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Sept. 25.

Draft elements of a regional mitigation strategy to compensate for impacts of the proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 1 project and future oil and gas in northeast NPR-A will be presented for public consideration. BLM said participants are expected to oil include oil industry representatives, federal and state government staff, Alaska Native interests, North Slope community members, conservation groups and other interested stakeholders.

“This stakeholder driven process will provide a mitigation framework that will increase consistency, predictability and certainty for future oil and gas development, while providing for environmentally responsible development of resources within the northeast NPR-A,” BLM State Director Bud Cribley said in a statement.

More information is available at the BLM Alaska website at www.blm.gov/ak.

- Petroleum News