Sullivan v. Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands

ELR Citation: 43 ELR 20074
No(s). 6769 (Alaska Mar 29, 2013)

The Alaska Supreme Court held that neither the Alaska Constitution nor the Alaska Land Act require the state's natural resources agency to issue a written best interest finding at each step of an oil and gas development project. The Act's best interest finding requirement is purely a creature of the...