A second Committee of the Whole meeting was scheduled by Senate President Novelle Francis on July 7, 2020.  The meeting was held by online video due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  Supporters of the SEG project were given unlimited speaking time, whereas opponents were kept to very short testimony.  It was, to put it mildly, a highly irregular and unbalanced hearing, not designed to educate the Legislature, but solely designed to go through the process to get to ratification of the SEG permit.

Listed below are all of the written testimonies by supporters and opponents of the Summers End project, presented during the July 2020 Committee of the Whole.  Of particular note is the brief written testimony of CZM Director Marlon Hibbert.  In his testimony Hibbert stated that CZM had no part in the “modifications” made to the permit by the Governor.  This acknowledgment meant that the was no Coastal Consistency Determination made for those extensive project modifications.  Ultimately this would mean that the “CZM Permit” was not valid for federal CZM consistency purposes.  Hibbert wrote:

Testimony by Supporters of the Summers End Group

Testimony by Opponents of the Summers End Group