How Long Until Alaska’s Next Oil Disaster? – the Atlantic

Cook Inlet from Homer (by Dave Bezaire CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr).

More than 30 years after the devastating Exxon Valdez oil spill, many Alaskans are still haunted by the possibility of another such disaster. Some felt that those fears were about to be realized in 2020, when the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) began preparing to auction off development rights to a million acres of Cook Inlet, a proposal known as Lease Sale 258…