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WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Beaufort Sea leases upheld

09/07/2009
By Nick Snow
A federal appeals court upheld a lower court's decision that the US Minerals Management Service did not need to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement before conducting a 2007 lease sale in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska. A three-judge panel in The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously said on Aug. 27 that MMS satisfied its duties under the National Environmental Protection Act. It said that MMS took the requisite "hard look" at new information concerning the impact of rising oil prices on OCS Lease Sale 202 before issuing a finding of no new significance. The North Slope Borough and the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission said in their lawsuit that MM...
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