Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryOctober 2000
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Court sides with Knowles
by The Associated Press
The Alaska Supreme Court has agreed with a Superior Court judge that Gov. Tony Knowles did not have to provide the Gwich’in Steering Committee with a handful of documents regarding the governor’s lobbying efforts to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
Superior Court Judge Sigurd Murphy ruled that seven documents could be withheld from the Gwich’in under exceptions to the Public Records Act in order to protect free discussion within the governor’s office during the decision-making process. The five-member Alaska Supreme Court also examined the papers, and agreed, unanimously, with Murphy.
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