at the

Unitarian Univeralist Fellowship of Falmouth

840 Sandwich Road

East Falmouth, MA 02536

Response to the BP Oil Disaster:

Should Deep-water Drilling be Banned or Regulated?

Wednesday, July 14

7:00 pm

Sponsored by:

The UUFF Green Sanctuary Committee

The UUFF Adult Education Committee

Purpose of the Meeting

To provide information and encourage discussion on deep-water drilling that will help individuals and small-groups to know better how to act effectively to help ensure that this sort of disaster does not recur.

Draft Agenda

Should deep-water drilling be banned in American waters? Moderators: David Jewett and David Dow

Current status of the Federal temporary moratorium of drilling

Arguments for and against a temporary moratorium

Information on actual and proposed deep-water drilling in American waters

Arguments for and against continuing deep-water drilling

How should offshore drilling be regulated in the United States? Moderator: Win Munro

Brief history of permitting and regulation of offshore drilling in America

Perennial problems with regulation – What is wrong with the current system?

Review of proposed regulatory reforms: What might work best?

David Dow is a retired oceanographer from NOAA Fisheries Lab in Woods Hole. He lived in Louisiana, 1978-1987, where he worked at Louisiana State University's Center for Coastal Studies and NASA's Earth Resources Laboratory. Dow is an activist with the Sierra Club. David Jewett spent 25 years in the photovoltaic industry before becoming a consultant for the development of materials for LEDs. Win Munro is a retired economist. In the early 1990’s he was an Energy Analyst with the New York State Energy Office working on, among other issues, global warming, SO2 cap and trade, and electricity regulation.