The Trump administration announces plans for a new oil and gas program that clears the way for drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Bernhardt said a future lease of the federally-owned land will make the entire 1.5 million acre Coastal Plain area available. Bernhardt said the announcement"marks a new chapter in American energy independence" and predicted it could"create thousands of new jobs." Drilling in these controversial areas of the Alaskan arctic has long been controversial. A 2017 law required the department to hold two lease sales in the refuge by 2024.
Bernhardt told The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the plans, that approving the program would allow for oil leases"right around the end of the year."Read MoreRepublican Alaskan lawmakers, Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young, praised the decision."This is a capstone moment in our decades-long push to allow for the responsible development of a small part of Alaska's 1002 Area," Murkowski said in a statement Monday.
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