{"id":2225410,"date":"2024-04-19T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-slammed-after-taking-new-action-to-curb-oil-production-in-alaska\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:52:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:52:03","slug":"biden-slammed-after-taking-new-action-to-curb-oil-production-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-slammed-after-taking-new-action-to-curb-oil-production-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Slammed After Taking New Action To Curb Oil Production In Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-slammed-after-taking-new-action-to-curb-oil-production-in-alaska%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=2225410&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--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Joe Biden rolled out new actions on Friday to curb oil production and mining in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alaska<\/a>, drawing criticism from Republicans and local leaders who say the move will compromise national security and hurt the economy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The action, taken through the Department of Interior, blocks the granting of any new leases for oil drilling or mining on 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Alaska is also blocked from building a road to a copper deposit in the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. The deposit was estimated to contain about $7.5 billion worth of copper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/19\/climate\/biden-alaska-drilling-mining-nrpa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to The New York Times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI am proud that my Administration is taking action to conserve more than 13 million acres in the Western Arctic and to honor the culture, history, and enduring wisdom of Alaska Natives who have lived on and stewarded these lands since time immemorial,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/04\/19\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-protecting-alaskas-arctic-lands-waters-and-wildlife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cMy Administration will continue to take ambitious action to meet the urgency of the climate crisis, protect America\u2019s lands and waters, and fulfill our responsibility to the next generation of Americans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The decision drew sharp criticism from Republicans who said that the move would weaken America\u2019s domestic energy production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJoe Biden is fine with our adversaries producing energy and dominating the world\u2019s critical minerals while shutting down our own in America, as long as the far-left radicals he feels are key to his reelection are satisfied,\u2019\u2019 Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) said. \u201cWhat a dangerous world this president has created.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our adversaries are celebrating the Biden administration\u2019s sanctions against America\u2019s energy &#038; critical mineral production\u2014locking up Alaska\u2019s National Petroleum Reserve and blocking access to the prolific Ambler Mining District. <\/p>\n<p>No wonder authoritarians are on the march. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PcUwIqUDB0\">pic.twitter.com\/PcUwIqUDB0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Dan Sullivan (@SenDanSullivan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenDanSullivan\/status\/1781071636860399644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leaders of the North Slope Borough, the home to the National Petroleum Reserve, <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofthearcticinupiat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NPR-A-Press-Release-4.19.24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slammed<\/a> Biden\u2019s decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe DOI seems to believe that they care about this land more than we do,\u201d said North Slope Borough Mayor Josiah Patkotak. \u201cThe elected leaders of the North Slope spoke in unison in opposition to this rule and the rulemaking process. To refuse to listen to our voices is to say that you know better \u2013 better than the people who have been this land\u2019s stewards for the past 10,000 years, and who depend on its continued health for their own survival.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/war-on-alaska-biden-admin-cancels-alaskan-oil-and-gas-leases-bans-drilling-on-millions-of-acres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first announced<\/a> the plan to stop granting new leases back in September as part of his broader push to guide the United States toward a so-called \u201cgreen transition.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Climate activists have still been upset with Biden, even after he\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-oil-executive-details-how-biden-is-a-drag-on-the-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">canceled<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the Keystone XL pipeline expansion and aggressively pushed green energy because he did <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alaska-arctic-refuge-oil-gas-leases-interior-318dcc3f2d5b104a800bf3ba48e764b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">allow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the Willow oil project in Alaska\u2019s North Slope to go forward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Biden has restricted domestic energy production, gas prices have remained high and are <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently<\/a> up about 20 cents per gallon in the last month, according to recent data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden rolled out new actions on Friday to curb oil production and mining in Alaska, drawing criticism from Republicans and local leaders who say the move will compromise national security and hurt the economy.\u00a0 The action, taken through the Department of Interior, blocks the granting of any new leases for oil drilling or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2225411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1487927051.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1487927051.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}