President Joe Biden JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) President Joe Biden has signaled plans to place a temporary moratorium on oil and gas lease activities in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
This is after the Trump administration issued leases in a remote, rugged area considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich’in.
The plans and other proposed executive actions were announced on a fact sheet by the new administration on Biden’s inauguration day.
A U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokesperson in Alaska says issuing leases was a Trump administration priority following a 2017 law calling for lease sales and that agency had not received guidance on Biden presidential orders.
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President Joe Biden is reportedly set to rescind approval for construction to be completed on the Keystone XL Pipeline, but the environmental impacts cited as justification are highly disputed.
Biden is sticking to his campaign trail word and cancelling the final leg of construction on the massive project, which runs from Alberta, Canada to Texas, as first reported by the CBC. The move is part of a slate of day one executive orders to address climate change, which also includes rejoining the Paris Climate Accords and halting oil and gas leasing from Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Read more about US: Joe Biden plans temporary halt of oil activity in Arctic refuge on Business Standard. The plans, along with other executive actions, were announced by press secretary Jen Psaki
Joe Biden plans temporary halt of oil activity in Arctic refuge
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The fight to open the coastal plain to drilling goes back decades, with the State’s Republican congressional delegation hailing the issuance of leases as “significant and meaningful for Alaska’s future.”
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This undated aerial file photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, signalled plans to place a temporary moratorium on oil and gas lease activities in Alaska s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge after the Trump administration issued leases in a remote, rugged area considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich in.