via We Are Guahan Public Forum
In case you haven't seen this, the
Coast Guard put out this interim rule (in effect and without notice) and is
requesting for feedback. The Air Force, i.e. AAFB, wants to explode ordnance
underwater every week permanently. They are taking comments up through November
10, 2014. Consider submitting comments as information is not complete and
residents deserve to have complete information. This relates to water and shore
areas and regulatory authorities, as well as why the notice was not issued
earlier are provided below. Tarague Basin will close about 6 hours a week
according to the notice. Protestors also have guidance as seen below.
What's missing in the notice? The
kinds of ordnance that will be detonated; is it air force or navy ordnance; is
this navy seal training related; what kinds of chemicals will be released into
the water; how will this impact fish stock and marine mammal stock and what
will be the consequences of these activities? See below.
Safety Zone, Tarague Basin; Anderson
AFB, GU
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Interim rule and request for
comments.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is
establishing a safety zone in the waters off of Tarague Basin, Anderson AFB, Guam, for the safety of waterway users, during U.S. Air Force explosive ordnance disposal operations.
The U.S. Air Force plans to engage in explosive ordnance disposal operations starting in August 2014, and continue to do so at varying times weekly, for an indefinite duration. The safety zone is activated, and therefore subject to enforcement, during these operations. When the safety zone is activated for enforcement, all entry into the safety zone (including vessels and persons) is prohibited except by permission from the Captain of the Port or his designated representative. The Coast Guard is implementing this interim rule for the safety of mariners; we encourage comments on this rulemaking as to how we may improve the rule.
DATES: This rule is effective without
actual notice September 9, 2014.
For the purposes of enforcement, actual notice will be used from August 22, 2014, until September 9, 2014. Comments and related material must be received by the Coast Guard on or before November 10, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Documents mentioned in
this preamble are part of Docket Number USCG-2014-0732. To view documents mentioned in this preamble as being available in the docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov,
type the docket number in the ``SEARCH'' box and click ``SEARCH.'' Click on ``Open Docket Folder'' on the line associated with this rulemaking. You may also visit the Docket Management Facility in Room W12-140 on the ground floor of the Department of Transportation West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
You may submit comments, identified by docket number, using any one of the following methods:
(1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
(2) Fax: (202) 493-2251.
(3) Mail or Delivery: Docket Management Facility (M-30), U.S. Department of Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Deliveries accepted between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except federal holidays. The telephone number is 202-366-9329.
See the ``Public Participation and Request for Comments'' portion of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below for further instructions on submitting comments. To avoid duplication, please use only one of these three methods.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have questions on this rule, call or email Chief Kristina Gauthier, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam at (671) 355-4866, email Kristina.M.Gauthier@uscg.mil. If you have questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Cheryl Collins, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone (202) 366-9826 or 1-800-647-5527.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Acronyms
DHS Department of Homeland Security
FR Federal Register
NPRM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
FR Federal Register
NPRM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
A. Public Participation and Request
for Comments
We encourage you to participate in
this rulemaking by submitting comments and related materials. All comments received will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov
and will include any personal information you have provided.
1. Submitting Comments
If you submit a comment, please include the docket
number for this rulemaking, indicate the specific section of this document to which each comment applies, and provide a reason for each suggestion or recommendation. You may submit your comments and material online at http://www.regulations.gov,
or by fax, mail, or hand delivery, but please use only one of these means. If you submit a comment online, it will be considered received by the Coast Guard when you successfully transmit the comment. If you fax, hand deliver, or mail your comment, it will be considered as having been received by the Coast Guard when it is received at the Docket Management Facility. We recommend that you include your name and a mailing address, an email address, or a telephone number in the body of your document so that we can contact you if we have questions regarding your submission.To submit your comment online, go to http://www.regulations.gov, type the docket number in the ``SEARCH'' box and click ``SEARCH.''
Click on ``Submit a Comment'' on the line associated with this interim rule.
If you submit your comments by mail or hand delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying and electronic filing. If you submit comments by mail and would like to know that they reached the Facility, please enclose a stamped,
Pacific Climate Warriors will Block the World’s Largest Coal Port
In October this year 30 Pacific Climate Warriors from 12
different islands will arrive on Australian shores to stand up to the
coal and gas industry.
We are now excited to announce that on October 17th, the Pacific Climate Warriors will use the canoes they have built to paddle out into the harbour of the world’s largest coal port – Newcastle – to stop coal exports for a day.
The port of Newcastle is exporting destruction upon our Pacific Islands at an unprecedented scale, and plans for expansion are underfoot. If the port were a country, it would be ranked 9th in the world in terms of emissions.
Pacific Islanders have spent over twenty years negotiating and
pleading with countries like Australia to cut their emissions and to
stop digging up fossil fuels – to save their homelands and their
cultures. But still, the coal and gas industry is doing the opposite of
that. They’re ramping up extraction at an unprecedented rate, while
continuing to attack the renewable energy industry. It is a radical
attack on our Islands and our cultures.
For the future of our cultures and Islands, we can’t sit by and watch
that happen. That’s why Islanders from across the Pacific have been
preparing for this journey to Australia, and building traditional
canoes. For most, this has been a first – warriors have been
reconnecting with their cultures in order to take up the fight they need
to save them.
Firstly, This is an expensive undertaking and our Pacific Island teams have been fundraising locally to build the canoes and make the journey. Any contribution towards these costs would be greatly appreciated. Click here to chip in and support the Pacific Climate Warriors!
Second, if you’re in Australia and close by we want you to come and join us. The more people we can get to join us the bigger and better the message will be. Register for the event here! For those outside of Australia, visit the website to find out how you can stand in solidarity with the Pacific Climate Warriors – click here.
Then lastly, share the story of the Pacific Climate Warriors with the world!
We are now excited to announce that on October 17th, the Pacific Climate Warriors will use the canoes they have built to paddle out into the harbour of the world’s largest coal port – Newcastle – to stop coal exports for a day.
The port of Newcastle is exporting destruction upon our Pacific Islands at an unprecedented scale, and plans for expansion are underfoot. If the port were a country, it would be ranked 9th in the world in terms of emissions.
If nothing is done to transition away from the fossil fuel industry, many of our Islands will lose everything.
Next month we will bring those canoes to Australia to stop the destruction of our Islands at its source.
This is going to be an incredible, landmark action, and will send a
powerful message: we will not stand idly by as the coal industry sinks
the future of the Pacific Islands.
And you can help us!
Firstly, This is an expensive undertaking and our Pacific Island teams have been fundraising locally to build the canoes and make the journey. Any contribution towards these costs would be greatly appreciated. Click here to chip in and support the Pacific Climate Warriors!
Second, if you’re in Australia and close by we want you to come and join us. The more people we can get to join us the bigger and better the message will be. Register for the event here! For those outside of Australia, visit the website to find out how you can stand in solidarity with the Pacific Climate Warriors – click here.
Then lastly, share the story of the Pacific Climate Warriors with the world!
Climate Summit to Hear from Marshall Islands Poet
August 29th, 2014
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| World leaders will hear from this Marshall Islander. Photo: Bran Kuwada |
During her talk, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s audience is expected to include more than 100 Heads of State.
“My poetry mainly focuses on raising awareness surrounding the issues and threats faced by my people,” she writes on her blog. “Nuclear testing conducted in our islands, militarism, the rising sea level as a result of climate change, forced migration, adaptation and racism in America – these are just a few themes my poetry touches upon. Besides these, I also use poetry as a means of understanding the people and the world around me.”
Jetnil-Kijiner”s NGO is called Jo-JiKuM, and focuses on “empowering the youth of the Marshall Islands about issues related to environmentalism and climate change and the impacts it has on our lives.”
The group”s motto is “Liok tūt bok” — like the bōb/pandanus tree, which visibly roots itself deep within the land, we, the youth of the Marshall Islands should do the same.
Among other topics, Jetnil-Kijiner teaches Issues in Pacific Studies at the College of the Marshall Islands.
“I”m really excited for this opportunity to speak on an issue that is really close to my heart,” she said upon learning that she has been chosen to speak during the Summit”s opening. “I want to bring my people”s message out to the world, that climate change is a threat that we need to take more seriously. I hope that my participation in this event will make a contribution.”
Her selection was the culmination of weeks of effort that followed an open call from the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) in July for nominations of civil society speakers and attendees for the Summit. By the 15 August deadline, 544 people had been nominated from 115 countries.
The UN-NGLS then facilitated a civil society Selection and Drafting Committee, which reviewed the nominees and short-listed 76 candidates for consideration by the Secretary-General”s Climate Support Team (CCST).
From this list of 76, the CCST selected Jetnil-Kijiner, three panelists to participate in a thematic debate that is being organized by UN Women, UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund called “Voices from the Frontlines of Climate Change,” and another 34 people to attend the Summit.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited Heads of State and Government along with leaders from business, finance, and civil society to the Climate Summit to catalyze ambitious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen climate resilience, and to mobilize political will toward achieving an ambitious, legally binding international climate change agreement by 2015.
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