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North Bering Sea Tribal Climate Self Determination Project

  • Writer: Norton Bay Watershed Council
    Norton Bay Watershed Council
  • Jul 23
  • 1 min read
Photo Credit: Hal Shepherd
Photo Credit: Hal Shepherd

The Norton Bay Watershed Council has undertaken this project to address the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM’s) recent 2019-2024 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (Leasing Program) which proposes to revive a long-abandoned government campaign to encourage oil and gas drilling in the North Bering Sea Region (NBSR). 


As part of the Project, the Norton Bay Watershed Council will:

  • Partner with the tribal entities located in the North Bering Sea Region (Tribes) in submitting comments to BOEM on the Leasing Program

  • Continue working with the Alaska Delegation and Governor Walker to request that the North Bering Sea Region Leases be removed from the Proposal

  • Work with Senator Murkowski regarding her commitment to the Tribes to use legislation to require that Department of Interior policies be vetted by the Tribes and that analysis consider Traditional Ecological Knowledge

  • Work with government agencies and other stakeholders to establish local oil and gas clean-up emergency response teams in the North Bering Sea Region. (This Project was funded in part by the Unitarian Universalist Fund for Just Society)

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