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Alaska Supreme Court Says Constitution Requires Consideration of All Impacts of Oil and Gas Projects

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Today, in a case brought by Trustees for Alaska, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that DNR has to look at all of the impacts, including cumulative impacts, of oil and gas exploration and development.

Click here for the Opinion.

Trustees petitions Alaska Department of Fish and Game to protect salmon streams

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Today, Trustees for Alaska submitted a petition to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to protect our salmon streams from coal strip mining on behalf of fisherman, property owners, and conservationists.

Court Rules DNR in Violation of Own Rules in Water Permit Issuance

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Yesterday, a Court determined that the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) violated its own rules by denying Alaskans’ their right to keep water in streams to protect wild salmon runs. The case challenged DNR’s issuance of a water permit to a coal mining company for the Chuitna Coal Project without first considering a citizen application to keep water in Middle Creek to protect salmon and salmon habitat.

Nuiqsut Residents Challenge Corps of Engineers Permit to Protect Critical Hunting and Fishing Grounds

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Seven residents from the Native Village of Nuiqsut filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging a decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) to issue a permit for the CD-5 drilling project north of Nuiqsut.

Plaintiffs Disappointed in Pebble Trial Decision

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In a disappointing decision, Superior Court Judge Eric A. Aarseth ruled that the Alaska Constitution did not require the State to provide public notice or issue a best interest finding prior to allowing exploration and temporary water use activities at the Pebble Project, which have been ongoing for the last 23 years. He also ruled that wildlife in the area has not been impacted even though local subsistence and sport users testified that helicopter activity has driven caribou from the Pebble Project area, and that fuel spills in the area have not caused serious environmental impact or harm.

Groups Concerned about Alaska’s Clean Water Challenge State Policies

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Developed Interim Methods without Public Participation

Judge Rules Best Interest Finding for Beaufort Sea Leases Unconstitutional

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A superior court judge ruled that the public will have the opportunity to participate in DNR’s decisions about whether other uses, such as subsistence hunting and fishing, and the public’s resources are jeopardized at each phase of oil and gas development in the Beaufort Sea.

Landmark Constitutional Lawsuit Challenging Exploration and Water Use Permits for the Proposed Pebble Mine Ends

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

After two years of investigating and litigating the exploration and temporary water use permits for the Pebble Project, the two-week trial closed on December 17, 2010.

Judge Orders Trial in Lawsuit Challenging the Proposed Pebble Mine’s Exploration Permits

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

State, Pebble Developer Lose Bid to End Suit Without a Trial

The Native Village of Eklutna, Conservation and Health Organizations Seek to Halt Railroad Herbicide Spraying

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

An emergency petition for review was filled with the Alaska Supreme Court on behalf of Native Village of Eklutna, Alaska Community Action on Toxics and six other community groups asking to halt herbicide spraying by the Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARR)

Discharge Permit for Red Dog Mine Threatens Alaska’s Water, Resources, Jeopardizing Health and Jobs

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Native Villages and Conservation Groups File Appeal of State’s Certification

Dirty Coal Dust Continues to be a Problem for Residents of Seward

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:00:00 GMT

Groups file Suit Against Railroad and Aurora Energy Services after Concerns go Ignored.

Alaska Native group and two Bristol Bay residents challenge decision denying them the right to appeal Pebble permit

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:00:00 GMT

Exploration permit for Pebble Mine rejection was appealed

Seward Residents Want to be Free from Dirty Coal Dust

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:00:00 GMT

Conservation groups fight against coal dumping in Resurrection Bay

Scientific Reports Indicate the Proposed Chuitna Coal Mine Would Destroy Cook Inlet Salmon Streams

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:00:00 GMT

New scientific reports offer critical information about the damage Chuitna coal strip-mine would cause

Landmark Suit Challenges Exploration Permits for Pebble Mine

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:00:00 GMT

Exploration permits could be suspended as a result of lawsuit filed

Groups Warn That Healy Coal Plant Cannot Operate Without New Clean Air Act Permit

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:00:00 GMT

Plant must control dangerous air emissions

Predator Control Program Said to Violate “Sustained Yield” Requirement in State Constitution

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:00:00 GMT

Populations of wildlife eradicated by allowing aerial hunting

Villages, Fishermen and Cook Inletkeeper Challenge EPA

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Trustees for Alaska Asks Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to Overturn Permit for allowing Oil Companies’ Toxic Discharges

Conservation Groups & Villages Appeal EPA Delegation of Clean Water Act Authority to the State

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Trustees for Alaska Files Challenge in Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Bristol Bay Residents Ask Supreme Court To Uphold Ban on Dumping Toxic Mine Wastes into U.S. Waters

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:00:00 GMT

The Kensington Mine Decision Will Determine Whether Pebble Mine’s Wastes Can Legally Be Dumped into the Headwaters of the World’s Largest Sockeye Salmon Fishery

Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Population Listed As Endangered

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Conservation Groups Applaud NMFS Decision