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Eliot Reed: Will Big Oil buy into Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?


Dec 24, 2020
Dec 24, 2020
With one month left in office, the Trump administration is using the lame-duck session to expand oil and gas exploration in the farthest reaches of the Alaskan Arctic. Buried deep within the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act were provisions enabling the auctioning of leasing rights in the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Opposition to drilling operations in the area by environmental groups and indigenous communities has been seemingly constant since the inception of the refuge in 1960.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is an area of the Alaska North Slope in the northeast corner of the state. Consisting of 30,136 square miles, ANRW is roughly the size of South Carolina and is estimated to contain billions of gallons of oil. The region encompasses a coastal plain along the Arctic Ocean, transitioning southward to the foothills of the Brooks Range. ANWR is home to more than 200 species of migratory birds, 42 variet ....

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