The Homer City Council last week weighed in on the proposed five-year federal oil and gas lease sale program being developed by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The National OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program was first released by BOEM in November and currently includes 34 potential lease sale areas in three regions on […]
Read MoreThe Department of Environmental Conservation formally announced on Friday the statewide launch of a program to help eligible homeowners cover cleanup costs relating to home heating oil spills. DEC’s Prevention, Preparedness and Response Program originally began last fall, according to a Jan. 9 press release. Rapid responses to home heating oil tank spills are essential […]
Read MoreThe Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources were adequately considered and no changes in the leasing plan are needed. In a Federal Register notice scheduled to be published on Monday, […]
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The Trump administration last Thursday, Nov. 20, released a plan for offshore oil and gas leasing that would open up almost all Alaska marine waters to development, along with the entire Pacific coast and the Gulf of Mexico. The Alaska portion of the plan proposes 21 lease sales through 2031, five of them in Cook […]
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