In a last-minute action before leaving office, the Biden administration recommended adding 3 million acres of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve to protected status. The move also establishes guidelines prioritizing the protection of traditional Native subsistence harvests of fish, caribou, and other resources.
The Department of the Interior is recommending that 3 million more acres of the National Petroleum Reserve be put into protective status and that Indigenous subsistence values be elevatedANCHORAGE, Alaska - Four days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office, his administration recommended that about 3 million more acres in Alaska ’s western Arctic be protected from development and issued a guideline, effective immediately, requiring additional protections for traditional Native...
“From their first day to nearly their last, the Biden administration willfully ignored federal law to try to convert the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska into de facto federal wilderness,” said a social media post by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. The administration’s actions concerning the petroleum reserve should be immediately repealed, she said in the post. “The silver lining? Only four more days of this,” she added.
Like the existing Teshekpuk special area, which holds important habitat for caribou, fish and migratory birds, the village of Nuiqsut is in the general area of the reserve’s northeastern corner, where new oil development has occurred. Nuiqsut is so close that oilfield infrastructure “We appreciate any movement and help in this matter and don’t want to diminish those efforts or any support given by entities and individuals towards these changes, but this is so little and so very lateto take executive action overturning protections and opening more of the Arctic to oil development. Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has
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