Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation's Report on the Charter for Development of the Alaskan North Slope.

摘要

This publication reviews the Department of Environmental Conservation's first report on the status of environmental commitments made in the Charter for Development of the Alaskan North Slope, signed by BP and Phillips. The environmental pledges in the Charter represent groundbreaking commitments to protect Alaska's environment from any potential future adverse effects resulting from the merger of the major Alaska North Slope oil company operators and to remedy existing problems. These pledges are unprecedented. This is the first time the resolution of antitrust concerns in a commercial merger of this scale has included environmental terms. The Charter's environmental commitments were intended to ensure that environmental performance remains a top priority in the post-merger Alaskan oil industry. These commitments include $17 million towards both enhanced spill prevention requirements for future activities and significant work to correct problems left from times when the industry was not held to the high standards we expect today.