The House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, led by Jim Costa (D-CA), and Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife, led by Del. Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU), will hold a joint oversight hearing on "Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf and the Future of our Oceans."
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Subject:
House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife
Joint Oversight Hearing on "Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf and the Future of our Oceans"
When:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
Where:
Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building
Witnesses:
Panel 1
The Honorable Ian A. Bowles
Secretary
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, State of Massachusetts
Mr. Joshua G. Eagle
Assistant Professor of Law
University of South Carolina School of Law
Dr. Thomas Kitsos
Consultant
Joint Ocean Commission Initiative
Mr. Robbie Diamond
President and CEO
Securing America's Future Energy
Panel 2
Captain Keith H. Colburn
K.H. Colburn Inc.
Dr. Jeffrey Short
Pacific Science Director
Oceana
Dr. Kathrine R. Springman
Assistant Editor
Marine Environmental Research
Dr. Christopher W. Clark
I.P. Johnson Director, Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology
Mr. Brad Gilman
On behalf of Mayor Stanley Mack, Mayor of the Aleutians East Borough
Opening statement:
Chairwoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo
The hearing will be webcast live on the Committee's Web site at: http://resourcescommittee.house.gov.