Comments and Presentations

Specific Project Comments
 
Tidal Projects

• NMFS Comments on Draft Pilot License Application for Verdant Power/Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project
  
  
• NMFS Comments on Pre-Application Document for Snohomish PUD/Admiralty Inlet Tidal Energy Project

Wave Projects

• NOAA Comments on Pilot License Application for Finavera/Makah Bay Tidal Energy Project
  
  
• NMFS Requested Study Plans for Reedsport, OR Wave Energy Project
  
  
• NMFS Comments on Pre-Application Document for Douglas County, OR Wave Energy Project

Offshore Wind Projects

• NOAA Comments on Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Cape Wind Energy Project
             

NOAA Comments to Ocean Energy Permitting Agencies

• NOAA/NMFS Comments on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) Notice of Inquiry for Preliminary Permits for Wave, Current, and Instream New Technology Hydropower Projects (NOI) (April 2007)
  
  
• NOAA Comments on the Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (DPEIS) for Alternative Energy Development and Production and Alternate Use of Facilities on the Outer Continental Shelf (May 2007)
  
  
• NOAA Comments on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) Proposed Licensing Process for Hydrokinetic Pilot Projects(November 2007)
  
  
• NOAA Comments on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) Policy Statement on Conditioned Licenses for Hydrokinetic Projects (December 2007)
  
  
• NOAA/NMFS Comments on the Minerals Management Service's (MMS) Request for Information and Nominations of Areas for Leases Authorizing Alternative Energy Resource Assessment and Technology Testing Activities (January 2008)

Presentations

• House Ocean Caucus-March 2008
  
  
• Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference-April 2008
  
  
• National Hydropower Association Annual Conference-April 2008
  
  
• Roger Williams Marine Law Symposium-October 2008
  
  
• DOE and EPRI Waterpower R&D Workshop-October 2008


• Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference-April 2009


• Keynote Speech at Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference-April 2009