Alaska Officials Step Toward Wider Oil And Gas Exploration On State Land Near Yukon River

By James Brooks

(Alaska Beacon) -- The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has tentatively decided that oil and gas exploration should be allowed on state land in the vicinity of the Yukon River.

In a public notice published March 4, the agency said its determination for the Yukon Flats “comports with constitutional direction to encourage the development of the state’s resources, and with the legislature’s direction that it is in the state’s interest to develop the state’s...