{"id":550560,"date":"2021-06-03T09:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=550560"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:36:22","slug":"alaskan-lawmakers-blast-bidens-outrageous-decision-to-halt-arctic-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alaskan-lawmakers-blast-bidens-outrageous-decision-to-halt-arctic-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaskan Lawmakers Blast Biden\u2019s \u2018Outrageous\u2019 Decision To Halt Arctic Drilling"},"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\">20<\/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%2Falaskan-lawmakers-blast-bidens-outrageous-decision-to-halt-arctic-drilling%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=550560&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232670816-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Top elected officials for Alaska slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to freeze oil development in an Arctic oil preserve.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-suspends-oil-leases-in-alaskas-arctic-refuge-as-gas-prices-continue-to-rise\">suspended<\/a> oil and gas leases in the 1002 Area, a federally-designated oil preserve, of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) on Tuesday, reversing a Trump administration achievement in opening up the area after decades of lobbying by Alaska officials.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy joined Alaska\u2019s congressional delegation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sullivan.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/alaska-delegation-governor-rebuke-biden-administration-for-cancelling-lawful-anwr-leases\">slamming<\/a> the Biden administration decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration\u2019s actions are not unexpected but are outrageous nonetheless,\u201d Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said. \u201cSuspending leases in Alaska\u2019s 1002 Area is in direct conflict with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, through which Congress mandates an oil and gas leasing program be established on the non-wilderness Coastal Plain, and ordered at least two lease sales by 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) added: \u201cDOI\u2019s announcement suspending leases in the 1002 Area goes against the law, facts, the science, and the will of the Native communities on the North Slope. It is nothing more than a naked political move by the Biden administration to pay off its extreme environmental allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The closure of the 1002 Area \u201cdisregards that fact-based scientific work, as well as the property interests of those who hold these leases, including the State of Alaska,\u201d Sullivan continued. \u201cIt also utterly disregards BLM scientists and Alaskans from across the political spectrum \u2014 Republicans, Democrats, Independents, unions, working families, as well the Alaska Natives who live closest to the area and who fought for decades for the right to allow for the responsible development of the 1002 Area of ANWR in order to strengthen our communities and build a better life for our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Don Young (R-AK) said: \u201cI am extremely dismayed by the Administration\u2019s decision to freeze oil leases in ANWR. Make no mistake; this suspension is a grave one, not only for those employed by Alaska\u2019s energy industry but also for the Alaska Native community of Kaktovik.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A tribe of Alaska natives living in Kaktovik village on the state\u2019s Northern Slope, where ANWR is located, have long pushed to open up the 1002 Area to oil development. In 2017, Kaktovik village tribal administrator Matthew Rexford pushed Congress to open up the 1002 in a committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not approve of efforts to turn our homeland into one giant national park, which literally guarantees us a fate with no economy, no jobs, reduced subsistence and no hope for the future of our people,\u201d Rexford <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/11\/02\/tribe-living-in-arctic-wilderness-says-environmental-regs-are-making-them-conservation-refugees\/\">told<\/a> the committee. \u201cWe are already being impacted by restrictions of access to the federal lands for subsistence purposes \u2013 this is really disturbing to us since we have lived here long before there ever was a refuge designated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alan Weitzner, head of Alaska\u2019s Industrial Development and Export Authority also expressed his disappointment in the Biden administration\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/business-economy\/energy\/2021\/06\/01\/biden-to-suspend-trump-approved-oil-and-gas-leasing-in-alaskas-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge\/\">Anchorage Daily News<\/a>. He did not rule out a lawsuit over the Biden order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very disappointed with this decision,\u201d Weitzner said. \u201cThis is a major move the Biden administration has taken, and we\u2019re trying to digest it. \u2026 We remain very focused on the rights we have under those leases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top elected officials for Alaska slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to freeze oil development in an Arctic oil preserve.The Biden administration suspended oil and gas leases in the 1002 Area, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279033,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232670816-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Alaskan Lawmakers Blast Biden\u2019s \u2018Outrageous\u2019 Decision To Halt Arctic Drilling","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232670816-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Alaskan Lawmakers Blast Biden\u2019s \u2018Outrageous\u2019 Decision To Halt Arctic Drilling","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550560","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}