FYI and / or comments.........
Just as enlarging ANWR in exchange for setting aside the empty coastal plane for oil/gas development turned out to be a scam by the Feds, the NPRA, set aside specifically for oil/gas development is proving difficult to actually get permission for producing wells.
They have leased a lot of acres years ago in NPRA. The permits have taken many court battles over many years to get permission to produce from where the feds already collected the dollars to lease.