Practice Areas
Environment, Energy & Resources
Environmental Litigation
Infrastructure Development
Energy Infrastructure & Clean Technology
Mining
Forest Products
Oil & Gas
Career
Eric Fjelstad represents clients in oil and gas, mining, project development, litigation, and strategic counseling for municipal and industrial projects.
In his project development work, Eric handles due diligence, commercial arrangements for exploration, development and production, and permitting. He counsels Alaska’s leading oil and gas and mining companies on National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting; Section 404 permitting and compensatory mitigation; and National Environmental Policy Act strategy and compliance. He also advises on permitting and leasing in the Outer Continental Shelf; Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act permitting; easements and rights-of-way; 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.
In litigation matters, Eric represents mining, oil and gas, and industrial concerns in administrative and legal challenges to project approvals and permits. He also defends companies against third-party and governmental claims and investigations brought under state and federal environmental laws. Eric has worked on many of the most significant disaster risk reductions, natural resources damages, and contaminated sites proceedings in Alaska. He has negotiated settlements covering the shutdown and cleanup of many of Alaska’s largest industrial facilities.
