A new environmental analysis could impose additional restrictions on development in the refuge or potentially nullify the leases altogether.
The Biden administration is suspending all oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pending a deeper look at the environmental impacts of drilling in the sensitive region, the Interior Department said Tuesday.
The suspension of the leases, which POLITICO first reported earlier in the day, follows President Joe Biden’s January 20 executive order that identified “alleged legal deficiencies” in the original leasing program and put in place a temporary moratorium on any oil- and gas-related activities in the refuge. The executive order also left open the possibility that the department would undertake a new environmental review to address potential legal flaws in the program.
He gives Russia , China and Iran the green light and he shuts down the American people
Traitor in Chief!
Yeah, big money is telling him what to do on that. POS!
Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, furtherest NE part of AK. Sanctuary in a sense.
I “git” green talk, thats fine – whatever.
Something strikes me about all of this. Fed took over in 1960 after it was established in the early 1900s. No roads, very food inhabitants…. Fossil fuel availability – yet “you cant touch this”?
We pollute the hell outta ourselves yet we won’t drill because of the sanctuary state (animals)? Don’t we eat animals?
Ohhh, I git it now. Alien remains are up there. Then thats ok by me!!!!
Cuckoooooo!!!!