Anna MacArthur
17:22 - 17:46
"the next stage is area identification. We don't know when this will be issued. It could be any time. We're expecting it to be quite soon, actually."
“the next stage is area identification. We don't know when this will be issued. It could be any time. We're expecting it to be quite soon, actually.”
- Speaker
- Anna MacArthur
- Timestamp
- 17:22 – 17:46
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 26, 2026
From the transcript
And so the next stage is area identification. We don't know when this will be issued. It could be any time. We're expecting it to be quite soon, actually. We were told that this was delayed for Alaska through the— I mentioned BOEM, Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, and then BSEE, the Bureau of— I think it's called Environmental Safety Enforcement.
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