A lease sale furor

BLM cancels AIDEA ANWR leases, argues EIS enabling sale legally deficient

Alan Bailey

for Petroleum News

When on Sept. 6 the Bureau of Land Management cancelled the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Agency's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain oil and gas leases, BLM argued that the 2021 lease sale in which AIDEA obtained its leases had been illegal because of a deficient environmental....

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A political decision?

Native organizations support development

Gwich'in and environmental organizations oppose

A Congressional mandate