{"id":160333,"date":"2021-01-21T23:57:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/biden-plans-temporary-halt-of-oil-activity-in-arctic-refuge\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T23:57:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:57:30","slug":"biden-plans-temporary-halt-of-oil-activity-in-arctic-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/biden-plans-temporary-halt-of-oil-activity-in-arctic-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden plans temporary halt of oil activity in Arctic refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Biden plans temporary halt of oil activity in Arctic refuge<\/strong>”
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JUNEAU, Alaska \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s administration announced plans Wednesday for a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leasing in Alaska\u2019s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge after the Trump administration issued leases in a part of the refuge considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich\u2019in.<\/p>\n

The plans, along with other executive actions, came on Biden\u2019s first day in office.<\/p>\n

Issuing leases had been a priority of the Trump administration following a 2017 law calling for lease sales, said Lesli Ellis-Wouters, a spokesperson for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Alaska.<\/p>\n

The agency held the first lease sale for the refuge\u2019s coastal plain on Jan. 6. Eight days later, Ellis-Wouters said, it signed leases for nine tracts totaling nearly 685 square miles. The issuance of leases was not announced publicly until Tuesday, President Donald Trump\u2019s last full day in office.<\/p>\n

Ellis-Wouters said by email Wednesday that she has not \u201creceived anything on executive orders that pertain to the ANWR lease sales.\u201d<\/p>\n

E. Colleen Bryan, a spokesperson for the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, said the state corporation, which was issued seven leases and was the main bidder in the lease sale, \u201ccan\u2019t speculate what may happ<\/a>en with the new administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden has opposed drilling in the region, and drilling opponents hope the executive action is a step toward providing permanent protections, which Biden called for during the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

His order cites \u201calleged legal deficiencies\u201d underpinning the oil and gas lease program in calling on the Interior secretary to, \u201cas appropriate and consistent with applicable law, place a temporary moratorium on all activities of the Federal Government\u201d related to implementing the program. The order also calls on the secretary to review the program and potentially conduct a \u201cnew, comprehensive\u201d environmental review.<\/p>\n

Pending lawsuits challenge the adequacy of the environmental review process undertaken by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The fight to open the coastal plain to drilling goes back decades, with the state\u2019s Republican congressional delegation hailing the issuance of leases as \u201csignificant and meaningful for Alaska\u2019s future.\u201d They criticized on Wednesday the planned moratorium.<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said in a statement that Americans did not give Biden \u201ca mandate to kill good-paying jobs and curry favor with coastal elites.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said \u201csignificant progress\u201d has been made in the past month, with the lease sale and issuance of leases. \u201cThe Biden administration must faithfully implement the law and allow for that good progress to continue,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, said the state \u201cdoes responsible oil and gas development in the Arctic better than anyone, and yet our economic future is at risk should this line of attack on our sovereignty and well-being continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oil has long been the economic lifeblood of Alaska, and drilling supporters have viewed development as a way to boost oil production that is a fraction of what it was in the late 1980s, and to generate revenue and create or sustain jobs.<\/p>\n

Drilling critics have said the area off the Beaufort Sea provides habitat for wildlife including caribou, polar bears, wolves and birds \u2014 and should be off limits to drilling. The Gwich\u2019in have raised concerns about impacts on a caribou herd on which they have relied for subsistence.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is so important that our young people see that we are heard, and that the president acknowledges our voices, our human rights and our identity,\u201d Bernadette Demientieff, executive director of the Gwich\u2019in Steering Committee, said in a statement.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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