![]() Many conservation organizations, including Friends have intervened on behalf of the government in the federal lawsuit by the AIDEA and the State. ![]() In the meantime, US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Bureau of Land Management continue the lengthy and expensive process of developing the Supplemental Environmental Impact Study required by order of the Secretary. Only the State of Alaska’s Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) retains its leases, but the prospect of an oil company acquiring those leases becomes dimmer each year as the regulatory problems and the costs of development in the arctic make such efforts very unattractive. Along with Regenerate Alaska’s recent lease withdrawal, this is another step by oil and gas interests to walk away from drilling on lands sacred to the Gwich’in people. The good news is that Knik Arm Services canceled its lease in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ![]() The bad news is the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act failed to include repeal of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas program and a buy-back of all existing leases. We have not heard who is being considered and await an official announcement. Department of the Interior announced that a Special Assistant for Alaska will be appointed soon.
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