Fracking Company: Remand In Offshore Takings Case Should Not Include Vacatur

Mealey's (April 30, 2021, 2:32 PM EDT) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A hydraulic fracturing company on April 27 filed a brief in Alaska federal court contending that a judge’s recent remand order should direct the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to “address the specific error” in the NMFS’s decision that allowing tug boats to haul fracking rigs in the Cook Inlet would not constitute “take” by harassment to beluga whales. The company also contends the remand order should not involve vacatur....