The Biden Administration is now locking up another three million acres of land in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
With just three days left in his administration, his Department of Interior is calling the area set aside for oil and gas a “special area” that must be saved for subsistence, and the ruling takes effect immediately through an interim ruling, for an area near where ConocoPhillips is developing the Willow project and Nuna oil and gas project.
The NPR-A was set aside by the federal government for oil and gas development in 1923. Management of the area was later transferred from the Navy to the Department of Interior-Bureau of Land Management. Now, 13% of it is being taken away from that original mission by Biden.
The Interior Department claimed that the ruling is based on 80,000 comments received from people who live on the North Slope.
The problem with that is that fewer than 11,500 people live in the entire North Slope Borough.
Congressman Nick Begich didn’t mince words:
“The Biden administration’s Alaskan assault team, led by Deb Haaland, continues to celebrate their all-out dismantling of Alaska’s economic future,” Begich said. “They are obstructionist, anti-Alaskan, anti-progress, anti-development, Rule us from Washington radicals. Today Joe Biden put forward New and Expanded “Special Areas” that make new development in the National Petroleum Reserve impossible should they be allowed to stand. Biden did end up building a wall after all. Unfortunately it was one that separates American families from the abundant prosperity they deserve. Thankfully, Biden’s war on American families is about to come to a close, and commonsense conservatives in the Congress and the incoming White House are already working to dismantle Biden’s legacy of failure.”
The crackpot doesn’t fall far from the crackpot tree in that family
Suzanne, you do understand that the NPR-A is federal public land, and therefore owned by all Americans, not just people on the North Slope, right? Hence the number of public comments received. I’m sure you do get this but it wouldn’t feed your desired narrative.
cman, the federal government said the action is based on 88,000 comments from residents of North Slope communities. I don’t know how to make that more clear. – sd
The news release states that they recieved “nearly 80,000 comments”, not “80,000 comments from residents of the north slope.”
Your writing wasn’t unclear, it was just wrong.
Doesn’t matter. If the comments weren’t from the North Slope which they couldn’t have been OR if they were from outside our state. Don’t you get it?
It may be easier to make a blind deaf person see and hear again.
Don’t be too hard on Suzanne.
You don’t like it here then leave. You won’t be missed.
I have a feeling you won’t go because this is one of the only places that can abide you. (Gladly) Prove me wrong.
What you don’t understand is post Count brings in revenue and without people who create the argument, This would be a pretty boring sight.
Poor cman there is not 88000 people living on the north slope.
How is living with no fossil fuels working out for you?
Oh yea you’re still a hypocrite because you’re using fossil fuels.
You try to get in everybody’s face on issues you know little about try studying more.
We don’t need the “federal government”, we were promise our resources would be available to the state. The government never keeps it word. Especially the leftist commie democrats.
cman-
There’s a new Sheriff in town. Seriously. Enough of your treason.
I think it’s a common misconception to Alaskans when they think that Federal land that resides inside the borders of the state is somehow their land that is being stolen. They are only part right. Probably just like Cali peeps think the redwoods are theirs. If it were state land, they may have a claim.
Where are the thousands of Acres the feds were supposed to turn over to the state as per Anilca and statehood? Just sayin….
Like most uneducated leftists, greg’s history only goes back far enough to prove his point. It will never go far enough to undercut whatever fantasy he is talking about at the moment.
At least I know history and don’t rewrite it as I go along like some of you.
Let see the reciepts greg of your un udulrated history. No here has referenced skewed history except you.
I don’t know, maybe they changed their mind, or maybe you were mistaken. Maybe the chinese monitors Don’t let you read that kind of stuff.
Trump is your President, in less than 48 hours
By default. Not qualifications.
Poor sore loser how about landslide electoral college votes, and won the popular vote.
Your boy lost.
Not sore
Just poor
Less then a hundred hours to go for the malevolent geranium. Praise be.
You folks are seemingly, missing the point,(Perhaps from the level of mentality currently demonstrated by the Hawaiian Senator) the land is locked up, who or where is immaterial, it is now denied development no matter the ownership. Who owns it or the number of residents,(I agree with Suzanne’s observation)is a mute call.
To this point, unless there is a political/Court change/ruling, nobody gets anything out of the area, above or below ground.
Cheers,-Johnson
Moot point.
Wow with just three days left, the hits against Alaska, and America in general, from this administration just keep coming! What more will they do before Monday? I have a feeling we’re going to be shocked. I really hope Trump can and will undo most of this damage quickly.
Trump will hopefully undo all these nationally destructive and traitorous executive orders by China Joe with EOs of his own. And the Supreme Court will agree with his power to do so.
American Energy Independence. AEI. Not DEI.
Let the effing drills go to work on the tundra.
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Section 1326: “ SEC. 1326. (a) No future executive branch action which
withdraws more than five thousand acres, in the aggregate, of
public lands within the State of Alaska shall be effective except by
compliance with this subsection. To the extent authorized by
existing law, the President or the Secretary may withdraw public
lands in the State of Alaska exceeding five thousand acres in the
aggregate, which withdrawal shall not become effective until notice
is provided in the Federal Register and to both Houses of Congress.
Such withdrawal shall terminate unless Congress passes a joint
resolution of approval within one year after the notice of such
withdrawal has been submitted to Congress.”
Seems fairly clear.
Cman,perhaps if you took the time to educate yourself about the statehood compact you would learn that the feds agreed to turn title on all federal lands to the state to be used in our development; we were also promised that we would be able to develop our resources, so even your naieve premise that this is represented by all Americans is a premise based on the bad faith of the U.S. government. Since it is obvious that
The above comment is a reference for the resident of shady pines retirement home
This can be fixed and I’ll bet it will be. This is something all of or delegation can agree on and take action.
Can anyone point to any action taken by this (and 0bama’s previous) administration that did not directly support the WEF agenda?
Anything…
The Congressional Review Act is our new BFF for the next year. Cheers –
If I was the governor I’d send a drill rig right into the middle of this (locked up land) today. Anyone else tired of the feds dictating our lives. ??
I have been advocating the same thing.
Screw the cheating lying feds and just drill.
Lol
I bet you would too. When the feds without your lunch money, you’d come crawling back. You can’t have it both ways.
Can we just please have our state back?
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