A controversial auction for rights to drill for oil and gas in the federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet drew only a single bid, from Hilcorp Alaska LLC. Via AlaskaBeacon
A controversial auction for rights to drill for oil and gas in the federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet drew only aHilcorp Alaska LLC, the dominant oil and gas operator in the Cook Inlet basin, submitted the sole bid in the lease sale held by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
The revival of Lease Sale 258, in turn, drew angry responses from environmentalists and from organizations and some residents of the region.The lawsuit filed on Dec. 21 in U.S. District Court in Anchorage alleges that environmental studies leading up to it were rushed and inadequate and that BOEM neglected to consider the required wide range of options.
In a statement, he called the sale a “flop” and “good news for the climate and those who call Cook Inlet home, like the endangered beluga whale.” Interior should use its administrative powers to refrain from issuing that sole lease to Hilcorp, he said. “It is a troubled operator with a long history of violations, the lease on which it bid is in important habitat for endangered belugas, and there should be no more oil leasing in the Inlet for Hilcorp or any other company.
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