Remote indigenous communities in Alaska find the threat of COVID-19 heightened by the federal government's plan to massively expand oil and gas drilling in their area.
and environmental groups to suspend the process in light of the region's lack of internet access and the pandemic's impact on public participation.
But some Nuiqsut residents say the agency's rush to expand oil operations during a pandemic deliberately ignored their concerns. Just last month, the agency followed up the Willow project's virtual hearings with a massiveto offer oil companies 18.
Public lands surrounding Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, Chaco Canyon National Historic Park and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are just some of the treasured American landscapes that would see oil, gas, and mineral development under the variousAncient Pueblo ruins are preserved in the remote desert of central New Mexico, Aug.20, 2019, at the Chaco National Monument.
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