Cook Inletkeeper and other conservation groups argued that the environmental review that led to the lease sale was flawed. The ruling suspends the single lease acquired in the sale, by Hilcorp.
A federal judge on Tuesday overturned a 2022 lease sale held in Cook Inlet’s federal waters southwest of Anchorage.
The Interior Department held the lease sale in December 2022, offering nearly 1 million acres of federal waters in Cook Inlet to companies for potential oil and gas drilling., out of 193 tracts offered.
The Interior agency also violated federal environmental law when it failed to consider “any alternative that would offer for lease a reduced number of blocks that would meaningfully reduce overall impacts,” and would better allow for informed decision-making and public participation, the judge wrote.
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