Sale includes minimum acres required, creating smallest footprint of potential surface disturbance and limiting seismic exploration ANCHORAGE — Monday the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a Record of Decision (ROD) for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), which analyzed the program as well as a lease sale mandated […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-AK) Saturday slammed the Biden administration for releasing a five-year plan for offshore energy development with a “maximum of three potential lease sales.” The Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Proposed Final Program, which arrives over a year late, has zero lease sales until at least 2025 […]
“Today’s<Monday> outcome reinforces that fossil fuel development in Cook Inlet is no longer a sound investment,” said one campaigner. “Alaskans know our climate crisis is no joke and are ready to move beyond the fossil fuel era.” Environmentalists in Alaska and beyond pointed to the oil and gas industry’s lack of interest in a Friday […]