Cancelled: BOEM Hearing on Offshore drilling. More info to come.
Much to our disappointment, we’ve just learned that the venue where the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) offshore drilling Public Hearing was to be held tomorrow has cancelled all events in that space.
The press conference will continue as planned on Monday from 1 to 2, but the change in venue means it can no longer be a public event. You can watch it via live stream here.
We’ll announce the rescheduled BOEM meeting, and our People’s Hearing, as soon as we have that information.
Meanwhile, can you send in an online comment?
That link has instructions for individual comments, and also a link to a petition, if you only have a moment or two. Either way, please make sure to comment!
In solidarity,
Jess Wallach, 350 Seattle
Sierra Club: We learned today (2/4/2018) that the venue where the offshore drilling Public Meeting, press conference and Day of Action were to be held tomorrow, February 5th, has regrettably cancelled all events in that space. This means the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Public Meeting will no longer take place tomorrow.
Thus, the People’s Hearing and Rally will be rescheduled so that we can hold those concurrently with the BOEM public meeting — after all, our goal was to show the BOEM and the Trump administration our wide and popular opposition to oil drilling off the coast of Washington State. We will be in touch about the BOEM meeting and our People’s Hearing/rally rescheduled date as soon as we have that information.
Given this late notice, please help us spread the word of this cancellation to anyone you know who planned to attend.
The press conference will continue on Monday from 1-2pm, but due to the venue cancellation, there will not be room for public attendance. Please tune in to watch the press conference via the livestream: https://www.facebook.com/StandUpToOil/videos/2027611667498271/
In the meantime, you can submit a written comment. Here is the comment link to submit a comment to BOEM on the issue of offshore drilling. Here is a cheat sheet for making a comment.
Thank you for your patience on this unexpected turn of events.
We’ll continue to work together to protect Washington’s coastline and coastal communities.
Victoria Leistman
Sierra Club
Associate Organizer
206-378-0114 x320
516-650-7530
