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Company disputes Interior Department’s account of why its request to hunt for oil in ANWR was rejected
Print article An Alaska Native village corporation that hopes to explore for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge fired back at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday, saying the agency is to blame for the corporation’s inability to conduct aerial surveys of polar bear dens this winter, a step required before the exploration can proceed. Kaktovik Inupiat Corp. asserted that the U.S. Interior Department, which oversees the agency, mischaracterized the reason the surveys weren’t conducted on time, and asked the agency to apologize. The corporation is disputing an announcement from the department on Monday.
Federal officials said the missed deadline makes future work on the project unlikely.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) An Alaska Native corporation that was hoping to receive a federal permit to look for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge did not complete aerial surveys for polar bears on time, officials said.
The U.S. Interior Department said the missed deadline makes future work on the project unlikely, the Anchorage Daily News reported Monday.
Katkovik Inupiat Corp. had applied with the Bureau of Land Management for permission to conduct a seismic survey in the refuge this winter.
Large trucks crisscrossing the frozen tundra would have generated seismic waves to map underground rock formations that might hold oil.
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