Officials had feared that having an endangered species in the vicinity, however small, might require the military to conduct extensive environmental impact reviews before each training exercise and to face penalties if otters were killed.
As an important area for nature conservation, extensive environmental impact studies have been carried out and, according to Dee Nunn at Renewable UK, "no concerns have been realised".
She said it may be a month until the agency decides whether an extensive environmental impact assessment is needed before a final decision is reached.
A failed strategy could result in extensive environmental impacts, larger than necessary costs and high social impacts, especially for future generations.
Since the Supreme Court's ruling, meanwhile, the Navy has made an agreement with the N.R.D.C. to do more extensive environmental-impact studies and advanced scouting to avoid, whenever possible, conducting exercises in close proximity to whales.
Nautilus says it has carried out extensive environmental research and impact assessments, and has conservation mitigation strategies in place such as moving organisms for later recolonisation.
"The area is developed so much, and the cost would be so extensive, and the environmental impact would be so great that we essentially abandoned the idea," he said in an interview Friday.
Recently, more extensive biodiversity and environmental impact studies have been developed [316], [318], [330], [331] and a complete environmental baseline is compiled in Martín et al. [329].
In addition to being the president's principal adviser on environmental policy, Mr. Peterson helped shape the extensive environmental reviews, known as environmental impact statements, that were mandated by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970.
The subpoenas come as New York's governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, seeks to end a de facto shale gas drilling moratorium caused by state regulators' extensive review of the environmental impact and the regulation of such drilling.
The city's planners are now conducting an extensive environmental review of the impact of their proposal; once completed, perhaps in a month, that study will be subject to scrutiny by the community board, the borough president and the City Planning Commission, and then to a vote by the City Council.
