Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times,
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has directed the Bureau of Land Management to “pursue steps to expand opportunities for exploration and development” of oil, gas, and mineral resources across nearly 20 million previously off-limits acres within Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve (NPR) and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
The move was not unexpected after President Donald Trump issued a Jan. 20 ‘Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential’ executive actions package mandating federal agencies “expedite permitting and leasing of energy and natural resource projects,” prioritize “development of Alaska’s liquified natural gas (LNG) potential,” and expand fossil fuel development in the 23-million-acre NPR and 19.6-million acre ANWR.
Burgum followed through with a Feb. 3 order requiring the Bureau of Land Management to “exercise all lawful authority” in developing a plan to implement the president’s policy.
“It’s time for the U.S. to embrace Alaska’s abundant and largely untapped resources as a pathway to prosperity for the nation, including Alaskans,” Burgum said in a March 20 press release announcing the directive. more
And then the Democrats get back in 3 years from now and kick us out again just when we start recouping our developmemt expenses?
No thanks.
^^^^ After the democrats torch all the EVs they are going to need the oil.
WA won’t be needing any of that gas DESPITE a voter initiative PASSED last Nov that aimed to prevent local and state efforts to transition away from natural gas but was challenged by climate activists(alarmists).
But our judicial overlords know whats best for us rubes and overturned the vote of the people. Christina Wong voiced the oppo to sanity pretty well when she said we(the voters) were “mislead” and now we(the alarmists) can get back to fucking us rubes with more windmills and solar farms(in WA!!!)
It never stops. Kinda weird to see this shit rolling out from a front row seat.
I have a bad feeling about increasing use of ANWR without regulation
Seasons of Wildlife:
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/arctic/species
Links in the first paragraph “Seasons of Wildlife” go to lists of ANWR species by : birds. mammals, fish, butterflies
I have worked on the North Slope. There is a higher concentration of wildlife around the facilities than elsewhere.
fine, we’re going to “Drill, Baby Drill” – ’bout time.
but will the refiners in this country refine
they still have some of the most stringest regulations and won’t restart their processes until the bureaucracy loosens the chokehold