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TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA v. STATE, DNR

No. S-5275.

865 P.2d 745 (1993)

TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA, City of Kaktovik, American Wilderness Alliance, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Alaska Wildlife Alliance, The Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, Alaska Center for the Environment, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES; Judy Brady, Commissioner, State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, and James Eason, Director, Division of Oil and Gas, State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Appellees. Arco Alaska, Inc., Chevron U.S.A., Inc., Phillips Petroleum Co., and Standard Alaska Petroleum Co., Intervenor-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 23, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Van Tuyn, Trustees for Alaska, Anchorage, for appellants.

Kyle W. Parker, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, and Charles E. Cole, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee State of Alaska.

Carl J.D. Bauman and Clyde E. Sniffen, Jr., Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Anchorage, for intervenor-appellees.

Before MOORE, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, BURKE, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ.

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

Seven environmental groups1 and the City of Kaktovik ("Trustees") challenged the State's sale of Oil and Gas Lease 55 (Sale 55). They contend that the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) failed to consider several issues when it determined that the sale was in the "best interests" of Alaska. Arco Alaska, Inc., Chevron U.S.A., Inc., Phillips Petroleum Co., and Standard Alaska Petroleum Co. intervened...

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