Preferred alternative would offer minimum acres required, creating smallest footprint of potential surface disturbance and limiting seismic exploration ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released the final Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), which analyzed a lease sale mandated […]
(Kotzebue, AK) – Thursday, 47-year-old Mandy Hill and 38-year-old Abraham Lambert each entered guilty pleas to six felony charges involving the torture of one child and the abuse of three other children. Utqiagvik Superior Court Judge David Roghair accepted Hill’s and Lambert’s pleas of guilty to: one count of Assault in the First Degree for knowingly […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-AK) and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-AK) reiterated their opposition to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) latest efforts to further restrict resource development across the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). In a letter sent Monday, the delegation voiced strong opposition to BLM’s request for information (RFI), the precursor […]
Members tour Alaska resource development projects, meet with Alaska Native stakeholders WASHINGTON – Wednesday, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL), along with Governor Mike Dunleavy and Senator Dan Sullivan, hosted several of her House Natural Resource Committee colleagues on a trip to the North Slope to learn more about Alaska energy development and Alaska Native priorities, […]
