Biden Gets a Broadside from Alaska Lawmakers
Jan 16, 2022 19:02:07 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Jan 16, 2022 19:02:07 GMT -5
Biden Gets a Broadside from Alaska Lawmakers After His Latest Move
By Jack Davis, The Western Journal
Published January 16, 2022 at 11:50am
A Biden administration decision that counteracts former President Donald Trump’s plan to expand areas of Alaska that could be used for energy development is being denounced by state officials.
The Department of the Interior has taken a step back from Trump’s plans to allow oil leasing and development in more than 80 percent of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, Reuters reported this week.
Instead, the Biden administration will revert to an Obama administration plan that limited development to about half of the reserve.
“This decision reflects the Biden-Harris administration’s priority of reviewing existing oil and gas programs to ensure balance on America’s public lands and waters to benefit current and future generations,” the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said in a statement.
The bureau is a division of Department of the Interior.
Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska said changing course, which will hurt the Alaskan economy, could be illegal. Sullivan’s comments, along with those of fellow Alaska Republicans Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young were posted in a news release on Sullivan’s website.
“No state in the country has been singled out like Alaska with such a destructive war on our working families, which hits our Alaska Native communities particularly hard,” Sullivan said.
“Moving to revert back to the 2013 Obama administration version, which removes roughly 50 percent of the NPR-A from oil and gas development, will hurt Alaska’s economic future, our nation’s security, and likely violates federal law.”
NPR-A is the acronym for the reserve.
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By Jack Davis, The Western Journal
Published January 16, 2022 at 11:50am
A Biden administration decision that counteracts former President Donald Trump’s plan to expand areas of Alaska that could be used for energy development is being denounced by state officials.
The Department of the Interior has taken a step back from Trump’s plans to allow oil leasing and development in more than 80 percent of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, Reuters reported this week.
Instead, the Biden administration will revert to an Obama administration plan that limited development to about half of the reserve.
“This decision reflects the Biden-Harris administration’s priority of reviewing existing oil and gas programs to ensure balance on America’s public lands and waters to benefit current and future generations,” the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said in a statement.
The bureau is a division of Department of the Interior.
Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska said changing course, which will hurt the Alaskan economy, could be illegal. Sullivan’s comments, along with those of fellow Alaska Republicans Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young were posted in a news release on Sullivan’s website.
“No state in the country has been singled out like Alaska with such a destructive war on our working families, which hits our Alaska Native communities particularly hard,” Sullivan said.
“Moving to revert back to the 2013 Obama administration version, which removes roughly 50 percent of the NPR-A from oil and gas development, will hurt Alaska’s economic future, our nation’s security, and likely violates federal law.”
NPR-A is the acronym for the reserve.
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