President Joe Biden’s administration announced on Monday that it is planning to use an oil and gas leasing management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that would close off almost half of the 23-million acre area from development.
Andy Moderow, state director of the Alaska Wilderness League, called the planned protections for those areas “a step in the right direction.” He said more needs to be done to protect wildlife and subsistence resources in the reserve and to combat climate change.
”The NPR-A, by law, needs to be managed to protect surface resources and that is something the Trump plan did not do,” he added.the bureau’s announcement, calling the plan “beyond ridiculous.” “All this is going to do is make the lawyers rich, Alaska poor and America less secure,” Dunleavy said. The North Slope Borough and the Arctic Slope Regional Corp. also announced their opposition to the plan.stated that they believe it “diminishes Alaska Native self-determination by ignoring the needs, concerns and input of the local people who live, work and subsist in and around the NPR-A.”
The Bureau of Land Management of Alaska announced through a press release that a new record of decision could be prepared, formally confirming the management plan. The agency will “continue its longstanding engagement and consultations with communities in Alaska about the management of the NPR-A,” the press release stated.that the reserve contains roughly 8.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and almost 60 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Management of the area has long been contentious.
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