Alaska - Oil & Gas

摘要

In Sullivan v. Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands, No. S-14216, 2013 WL 1281786 (Alaska Mar. 29, 2013) (REDOIL) (reconsideration pending), the Alaska Supreme Court held that (1) the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) need not make a formal "best interest finding" (BIF) before each phase of an oil and gas project on state land, but (2) under the Alaska Constitution the state must consider a project's cumulative impacts at each phase of the project.