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Court rejects Trump’s drilling proposal in major victory for polar bears and climate December 15, 2020 9:57 AM CDT By Jessica Corbett
A polar bear greeting photographed from a small boat in the Beaufort Sea on the northeast coast of Alaska on Sept. 22, 2015. | Arthur T. LaBar / Flickr
Climate action advocates and wildlife defenders celebrated Monday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected the Trump administration’s approval of Liberty, a proposed offshore oil-drilling project in federal Arctic waters that opponents warned would endanger local communities, animals, and the environment.
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Alaska drilling project squashed by court decision was touted by oil-friendly former Trump official
The official’s comments, alongside the court’s ruling, cast doubt on the integrity of the Trump administration’s approval process for oil and gas development in Alaska.
This week, a federal court overturned the Trump administration’s approval for what would have been Alaska’s
first drilling project in federal waters, citing faulty analyses of how
the Arctic oil and gas facility would affect the climate and
polar bears.
The Department of Interior approved Hilcorp’s Liberty project in October 2018. However, months before the agency completed the
Dec 12, 2020
Now that the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled on an offshore oil drilling project in the Arctic, polar bear protectors finally have a reason to celebrate.
Young polar bear in Alaska by Hans-Jurgen Mager
Bastions of unusually-rich biodiversity in the waters of the Beaufort Sea will remain undisturbed with the project’s defeat, as it would have required building not only the oil derrick itself, but a gravel mine in the bay to make the rigâs pylons, as well as many supporting installations.
After the Trump administration gave approval for the project in 2018 to Hillcorp Alaska, its Liberty oil project in Foggy Island Bay was immediately slapped with lawsuits decrying the permits. The decision came on December 7 from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
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