The ruling is considered a win for the Biden administration, which put a halt to oil and gas leases in 2021.
The ruling by United States District Judge Sharon Gleason dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority and the State of Alaska in November 2021 against the Biden administration, stating that no drilling for oil or gas can be done on land that was purchased in a lease sale earlier that year.
AIDEA was one of three bidders that purchased land in the lease sale that occurred in January 2021, buying seven tracts of Coastal Plains land within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a hotly-contested chunk of federal land in northern Alaska. The Alaska agency claimed federal officials overstepped in suspending lease-related activities in a section of ANWR.
“AIDEA has an agenda to drill on lands sacred to our people and to promote a leasing program that threatens our way of life,” Demientieff said. “Today’s ruling comes as good news as we continue defending the Porcupine caribou herd and our traditional way of life from a destructive, disrespectful, needless and illegal leasing program. We will always protect these sacred lands that connect our people culturally and spiritually. We will always protect the caribou.
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