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Eric Fjelstad, leads the firm’s Alaska environmental and resources representations. His practice is focused on oil and gas, mining, project development, litigation, and strategic counseling for municipal and industrial projects.
Eric’s project development work emphasizes due diligence, commercial arrangements for exploration, development and production, and permitting. He regularly counsels Alaska’s leading oil and gas and mining companies on NPDES/APDES permitting, Section 404 permitting and compensatory mitigation, National Environmental Policy Act strategy and compliance, permitting and leasing in the Outer Continental Shelf, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act permitting, easements and rights-of-way, strategies for permitting and consultation under the Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), oil spill contingency planning, hazardous waste issues under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Prevention of Significant Deterioration and air permitting, and water rights issues.
Eric’s litigation practice centers on the representation of mining, oil and gas, and industrial concerns in administrative and legal challenges to project approvals and permits. He also regularly defends against third-party and governmental claims and investigations brought against companies under state and federal environmental laws. Eric has worked on many of the most significant DRR, natural resources damages, and contaminated sites proceedings in Alaska, and has negotiated settlements covering the shutdown and cleanup of many of Alaska’s largest industrial facilities.
Eric is active in the Alaska resources community and is a frequent speaker on issues relating to resource development in Alaska. He is currently the past president and an officer in the Resources Development Council, a trade group representing Alaska’s leading resources, fishing, and tourism companies.
