From the Gulf of Mexico to the Beaufort Sea: Inuit Involvement in Offshore Oil and Gas Decisions in Alaska and the Western Canadian Arctic
October 2013
Citation:
43
ELR 10925
Issue
10
In 2013, do the Inuit on either side of the U.S.-Canada Beaufort Sea maritime boundary have better tools for taking more meaningful part in decisions relating to offshore oil and gas development in the Arctic than they did in the wake of the 2010 Macondo/Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill? A review of legal and policy developments in both countries over that three-year period allows the conclusion that U.S. and Canadian officials have taken incremental but non- ystematic steps that improve modestly Inuit involvement in their respective regulatory processes for Arctic offshore oil and gas activities.