“Alaska Department of Natural Resource’s recent approval of two Temporary Water Use applications submitted by Buccaneer Alaska to withdrawal up to a combined total of 61,000 gallons of water per day from several wells located on the Kenai Peninsula may violate the Alaska Water Use Code which prohibits the issuance of a TWUP when a “significant” amount of water is at stake.

The TWUPS also potentially conflicts with the code’s protection of the “public interest” from land-based oil and gas drilling that may expose people and the environment to highly toxic chemicals used in the drilling process and the fact that the public, typically, has no idea what types of chemicals are being used in such process due to confidentiality regarding drilling process claimed by the operator.”