BOEM Drafting Environmental Impact Statement For Proposed Cook Inlet Oil, Gas Lease Sale

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is in the process of drafting an Environmental Impact Statement on a proposed Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale. It’s could open up the federally-managed waters of Cook Inlet to oil and gas exploration. BOEM held a series of public scoping meetings on the Kenai Peninsula last week.

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Quinton Chandler is a reporter at KTOO in Juneau.

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