Marianas Variety Runs Story that Portions of the DEIS Were Plagiarized

The Marianas Variety reports:

A representative from TEC [Note: TEC, Inc. is the contractor paid to prepare the DEIS], who requested that he be identified only as “director of administration,” admitted that the portion in question was lifted from the scientific document.

“We did not adequately give that guy attribution,” the TEC representative told Variety. “Long story short, we put the section in quotes and footnoted it further and the final version will reflect that.”

Several paragraphs pasted by TEC into the draft study were taken verbatim from the study without proper attribution.  “We have made sure to make it clear that we properly give him attribution for his academic work,” the TEC representative added.

A full copy of the story can be read at:
http://mvguam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11923:cut-and-paste-report&catid=1:guam-local-news&Itemid=2