{"id":2024666,"date":"2023-09-07T13:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-cancels-all-remaining-leases-congress-issued-in-arctic-refuge-further-gutting-american-energy\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:44:41","slug":"biden-cancels-all-remaining-leases-congress-issued-in-arctic-refuge-further-gutting-american-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-cancels-all-remaining-leases-congress-issued-in-arctic-refuge-further-gutting-american-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden scraps Arctic leases, deals blow to US energy."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-cancels-all-remaining-leases-congress-issued-in-arctic-refuge-further-gutting-american-energy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2024666&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>President Biden Axes Trump-Era Leases in Arctic National\u200b Wildlife \u200dRefuge<\/h2>\n<p>In a bold \u200cmove, President Joe Biden has taken another step towards his commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-goes-full-green-new-deal-tyrant-carbon-emissions-threaten-the-very-existence-of-our-planet-video\/\" title=\"Biden Goes Full Green New Deal Tyrant: Carbon Emissions Threaten \u201cthe Very Existence of our Planet\u201d (VIDEO)\">combat climate change<\/a> by canceling oil and gas\u200c leases in Alaska&#8217;s Arctic \u200cNational Wildlife Refuge.\u200c This decision marks a\u200c significant blow to American energy.<\/p>\n<p>Back in \u200c2017, Congress opened up a 1.6-million-acre patch of land in Alaska&#8217;s north coast for drilling leases through \u2064the Tax \u2062Cuts and Jobs Act. However, this section only accounts for less than 10 \u2063percent\u2063 of the entire \u2064refuge, which is\u200b about the size of South Carolina and spans 19.6 million acres\u2062 in northeast Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My Administration\u2062 is canceling \u2062all \u2063remaining oil and gas leases issued under the last administration in the Arctic Refuge and proposing \u200dto protect 13 \u200cmillion acres in\u2062 the Western Arctic,&#8221; Biden wrote\u2064 on \u2063X, formerly known \u2062as Twitter. \u200c&#8221;There&#8217;s \u200dmore to do,&#8221; he added \u200bominously.<\/p>\n<p>Biden had previously paused leases in 2021 to assess their environmental effects, following an executive order on his first day in office to halt new drilling\u200c leases on public land. In August, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-insanity-top-10-stories-of-the-week-vol-25\/\" title=\"Education Insanity: Top 10 Stories Of The Week (Vol. 25)\">federal judge upheld<\/a> the administration&#8217;s pause on development \u200din the region\u200d despite objections from Alaskans.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Secretary Deb Haaland celebrated the cancellation of leases in a press release, stating, &#8220;President Biden is delivering on the most ambitious climate and conservation agenda\u2064 in history. The steps we \u200bare taking \u200ctoday further\u200d that commitment, based on the best available science and in recognition of\u200d the Indigenous \u200dKnowledge\u200b of the original stewards\u200c of this area, to safeguard our \u200cpublic lands for future generations.&#8221; However,\u200d it&#8217;s worth noting that the\u200d indigenous tribe closest to the area only turned against drilling after unsuccessfully attempting to lease out its own land for\u200d oil and gas development.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that there are \u2063between\u2064 4.3 and 11.8 billion barrels of\u200d recoverable \u200doil beneath the frozen tundra of the north \u200bslope&#8217;s \u2063refuge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/23\/how-the-left-is-exploiting-tribal-hypocrisy-on-oil-leases-in-the-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How The Left Is Exploiting Tribal\u2062 Hypocrisy On Oil Leases In The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This decision to terminate leases issued\u200c under President Donald \u200cTrump follows Biden&#8217;s previous order in March to restrict another 16 million acres of Alaskan \u2062territory from oil and gas development.\u2062 Biden has made it a top priority to \u2062lock up 30 percent of the nation&#8217;s land and waterways by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once again, the Biden administration has\u2063 shown it cares \u2062nothing about following the law \u200bwhen \u200dit comes to its climate\u200b crusade,&#8221; said Rick Whitbeck, the Alaska State Director for Power the Future. &#8220;Canceling \u2063fully-executed leases and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-cancels-all-remaining-leases-congress-issued-in-arctic-refuge-further-gutting-american-energy\/\" title=\"Biden scraps Arctic leases, deals blow to US energy.\">putting congressionally-authorized development areas<\/a> \u2064off-limits only weakens America&#8217;s domestic\u200b energy situation. You have to wonder who is pulling the strings: OPEC? Russia? \u200cChina?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden has consistently turned to Middle Eastern nations \u2064to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysts-expect-crude-oil-prices-to-keep-rising-throughout-the-year\/\" title=\"Analysts expect crude oil prices to keep rising throughout the year\">increase oil production<\/a> whenever oil prices rise.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who has been repeatedly frustrated by the administration&#8217;s antagonism towards development in his state, strongly criticized this latest interference from \u200bWashington. &#8220;Federal agencies don&#8217;t get to rewrite laws, and that is exactly what the Department \u200cof\u200c the Interior is trying to do here,&#8221; Dunleavy said. &#8220;We will fight\u200c for Alaska&#8217;s right to develop its own resources and will be\u2062 turning to the courts to correct the Biden administration&#8217;s wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on \u200cculture, health, and wellness. He has \u200dalso written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox \u2062News. Tristan graduated from George\u2064 Washington University where he majored in political science\u200b and\u200d minored in \u200djournalism. Follow him on\u200c Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. \u2064Sign\u200c up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden canceled Trump-era leases for oil and gas development in Alaska&#8217;s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, further impacting American energy. In 2017, Congress allowed drilling leases on a 1.6-million-acre patch along Alaska&#8217;s north coast through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. 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