JUNEAU -- Alaska's governor is calling a court order halting oil and gas development off the state's northwest coast "another nail in the coffin of offshore development."

Earlier this week, a federal judge stopped companies from developing wells on billions of dollars in leases in the Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea, finding the federal government had failed to follow environmental law before selling drilling rights.

Gov. Sean Parnell said the judge's findings were troubling. But he says he now plans to press the federal government to get its "act together" and to do things right. He said further delay only means Alaska jobs are "going to waste" and the country is losing out on developing a domestic energy source that could help ease its reliance on foreign oil.