I have a close friend who just spent the last several weeks helping evacuate and then restart several gulf rigs. He would probably disagree with your statement.
We should remove the restrictions and let the market do what it does best. If infrastructure gets built, then it makes it much harder later for the enviro-nazis to shut it down than to prevent new drilling in a future hostile administration.
There is nothing free market about this. They need to get on public land to drill then they need to have a pipeline extended over public land. It will end up being cronyism. Texas and North Dakota are free market. They drill on private land. They run a pipe over private and public lands and pay rent for it.
Its likely that nobody will even drill up there. They will get title to the drilling, hold it and sell it in the future. This is far from free enterprise.