Posted on 03/21/2025 10:47:08 AM PDT by cgbg
Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is taking immediate steps to unleash Alaska’s untapped natural resource potential and support President Donald J. Trump’s vision of American Energy Dominance.
Under the Secretary’s leadership, the Bureau of Land Management will pursue steps to expand opportunities for exploration and development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The BLM will also work towards partial revocation of public land withdrawals that will help solidify the path forward for the proposed Ambler Road and Alaska Liquified Natural Gas Pipeline projects.
“It’s time for the U.S. to embrace Alaska’s abundant and largely untapped resources as a pathway to prosperity for the nation, including Alaskans,” said Secretary Burgum. “For far too long, the federal government has created too many barriers to capitalizing on the state’s energy potential. Interior is committed to recognizing the central role the State of Alaska plays in meeting our nation’s energy needs, while providing tremendous economic opportunity for Alaskans.”
In this initial suite of actions to implement Executive Order 14153 and Secretary’s Order 3422, both titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential,” the Interior and BLM will pursue:
Reopening up to 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska available to leasing and expanding energy development opportunities in the approximately 23-million-acre reserve. This plan would balance the Secretary’s responsibilities to provide for oil and gas leasing, exploration and development consistent with the energy needs of the nation and protect important surface resources in the reserve.
Reinstating a program that makes the entire 1.56-million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge available for oil and gas leasing.
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Political Conservatives are the true environmental conservatives. We can easily keep the incredible environment unharmed as we harvest the incredible resources. That goes for the contiguous 48. I understand national parks, protected land and true pollution concerns but there needs to be a balance. Energy and rare materials are essential now and the future being a national security imperative.
Very good post. +10
Murkowski will probably try to block it. If she does, she'll be finished. If she doesn't, she'll be DJT's p***** b**** from here on.
Nobody is going to like this.
NPR-A The National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska, has quite a history. I will not get the numbers right, but there was a time reserves were estimated at something like 30 billion barrels of oil. Then early this century, 2000s, the USGS made a special announcement. Various firms had done exploratory drilling. The results defined USGS’s special announcement.
The previous estimate of reserves was reduced by 90+%. Not to 90+%. By 90+%. If the number was 30 billion, it became 3 billion, and mostly because what had been thought to be oil was actually either nothing or natural gas.
This event is a result of Trump making a campaign trip to Alaska last year. It got him that House seat. While there, they pitched him.
You can generate jobs and economic boost in a state even if the 1000s of workers drilling and looking wind up finding nothing. Alaska would like there to be big flow from the wells to be drilled, but there may not be. They’ll still get the jobs that did the drilling.
“Murkowski will probably try to block it. If she does, she’ll be finished. If she doesn’t, she’ll be DJT’s p***** b**** from here on.”
Let’s hope she is boxed in like that. She is awful.
Get’r done
Oil is a tough game—very hard to make good predictions.
The key to improving energy self-sufficiency is doing everything all at once.
If our resources are headed out of the country we should put an export tariff them. If we don’t we will pay more for the oil and gas and it will hurt all the companies restoring manufacturing here. What’s in America should stay in America protecting our country and its workers.
Now do the King Cove road to an all-weather airport in Cold Bay..
Wait until Mulkowski raises hell. She is a RAT, anyway.
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