In September 2024, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Guam Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force (“Task Force”), reflects a partnership between federal, territory, and local agencies, as well as offices who regularly engage with members of the Indigenous community. The Task Force serves as a renewable energy forum to discuss issues and concerns, including those identified by the Indigenous community; exchange data and information about biological, cultural, and physical resources, ocean uses, and priorities; and facilitate early and continual dialogue and collaboration opportunities. At this meeting, BOEM shared information regarding its offshore wind leasing process well as its studies on this renewable resource.
This video clip, BOEM’s facilitation contractor Kearns and West outlines meeting agenda/ objectives and introduces task force members.
For more about BOEM’s renewable energy program activities in Guam, please visit us online at www.boem.gov/Guam.