On June 2 2015, the
U.S. Department of Interior agreed to reveal information about the use of the
hydraulic fracturing technique in the Gulf of Mexico’s waters as part of a legal
settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity (CBM).
The Center for
Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit
against the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental
Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) “challeng[ing]
BSEE’s and BOEM’s failure to issue a timely response to its FOIA request for
records related to the extent that BSEE and BOEM have allowed hydraulic
fracturing and other unconventional well stimulation in offshore oil and gas
operations in the Gulf of Mexico”.
The agreement
stipulates that “BOEM and BSEE will begin providing [the CBM] with a rolling
production of non-exempt documents subject to FOIA that are responsive to the
FOIA request as narrowed beginning on July 1, 2015, and will complete the
production by April 30, 2016”.
Written by Chloe Marie - Research Fellow
06/08/2015
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