Legal Opinion
Kunaknana v. Clark
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 10, 1984No. Nos. 83-4325, 84-3623PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
Sarah Kunaknana and Jean Numnik, two Inupiat Eskimos, appeal a district court judgment denying their challenge to certain oil and gas lease sales by the Bureau of Land Management within the Alaska National Petroleum Reserve. We affirm.
I. OVERVIEW
This appeal concerns oil and gas leasing on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), a national petroleum reserve located on the North Slope in Alaska and encompassing 23 million acres. With certain exceptions, oil and gas production was prohibited within this reserve according to the terms of the Naval…
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