Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has announced several actions to open up Alaska for increasing drilling, fulfilling President Donald Trump’s calls to realize what the administration has described as the state’s untapped energy potential.
Thursday afternoon, Burgum detailed three main actions the department would be taking to expand exploration and development opportunities for the fossil fuel industry in Alaska.
This includes reopening up to 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve, a roughly 23-million-acre area located in the Alaskan Northern Slope Borough.
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Burgum said the Interior Department also plans to reinstate a program ensuring the entire 1.56-million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is available for oil and gas leasing.
Additionally, the department is moving forward with revoking withdrawals along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Corridor and
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