are still untouched. i ve seen the impact of the industry for myself. it has become a battleground now because those who want america to be less dependent on foreign oil say they ve got to open this place up to far more drilling. when donald trump was president, vast tracts of pristine land were licensed for oil and gas extraction. nowjoe biden has brought that to a halt. environmental campaigners, who have long protested against arctic drilling, say they are now pleased, but still remain cautious. a suspension is not a cancellation. so we would expect it to be cancelled permanently and that would be in line with what president biden has promised. which is the phasing out of all fossil fuels and a shift to 100% renewable energy transition. and we are not there yet. this administration still has a lot to do. but this is a good first mini
concern about the massive oil and gas installations and the big plans to expand into areas that are still untouched. i ve seen the impact of the industry for myself. it has become a battleground now because those who want america to be less dependent on foreign oil say they ve got to open this place up to far more drilling. when donald trump was president, vast tracts of pristine land were licensed for oil and gas extraction. nowjoe biden has now brought that to a halt. environmental campaigners, who have long protested against arctic drilling, say they are now pleased, but still remain cautious. a suspension is not a cancellation. so we would expect it to be cancelled permanently and that would be in line with what president biden has promised. which is the phasing out of all fossil fuels and a shift to 100% renewable energy transition. and we are not there yet.
oh you can t criticize us, it will deter public service, it will deter people who are liars and enablers and really bad people and they should be deterred. they don t get to escape accountability. that s our job to hold them accountable for the rest of their lives. here is a challenge that i have of my political scientist friend here, jason, the problem is some of it is normal. right. if you leave to jennifer s point, it is not like the next time they get power, they ll spoil the entire landscape to and over 1.9 million tracks of pristine land in the west which they have doing right now. not because trump is in it because republicans are there. they re not going to hand our courts over to the far, far right that wants the hand maids tale to be real.
now, here is alaska. and here are the parts now affected. one-third of the whole state. it sets aside for conservation an area larger than the state of california. by designating about 100 million acres for new parks and wildlife areas, the united states has, as of today, double the size of its national park system. december, 1980. president carter signs into law that expansion of protected lands. it dramatically helped the arctic national wildlife refuge, a 19 million acre expanse of pristine land largely populated by native community, polar bear, caribou, the refuge sits on top of the largest known oil reserves in north america. billions of barrels. in the 40 years since carter signed the law, the refuges remain free of drilling despite many interests and republican administrations but now that whole status is in jeopardy when trump passed that tax cut at the end of 2017, the legislation he signed including a provision to
one-third of the whole state. it sets aside for conservation an area larger than the state of california. by designating about 100 million acres for new parks and wildlife areas, the united states has, as of today, doubled the size of its national park system. december, 1980. president carter signs a law of that expansion of protected lands. it dramatically helped the arctic national wildlife ref ur, pristine land in native alaska populated by caribou and sits on top of the largest oil reserves in north america, billions of barrels. the refuges remained free of drilling despite many interests and republican administrations, but now that whole status is in jeopardy when trump passed that tax cut at the end of 2017, the legislation he signed included a provision to open up about 1.5 million acres of the refuge to oil and gas leasing.