Legal Opinion
Denali Citizens Council v. State, Department of Natural Resources
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided February 14, 2014No. 6865 S-14896PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOLGER, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
This is an administrative appeal from a decision by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to grant Usibelli Coal Mine (Usibelli) a gas exploration license in the Healy Basin (the Healy license). Denali Citizens Council (Denali Citizens), a community-based public interest group located in the Denali Borough, challenges DNR's finding that issuing the Hcense is in the best interests of the state on two grounds: first, that DNR failed to take a "hard look" at the economic feasibility of exeluding certain residential areas and wildlife habitat from the…
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