In Latest Folly, Biden-Harris Bans Drilling On 28 Million Acres of Public Lands in Alaska
Interior Secretary Den Haaland reverses a Trump-era decision opening up millions of acres of federal land in Alaska to energy development and mining.
Perhaps my least favorite Biden administration official is Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whose racialist policies blended with green activism have been strangling our nation’s ability to produce affordable energy.
Here are some lowlights:
- Conflict of Interest Issues Arise as Sec. of Interior’s Daughter Lobbies for Moratorium on Oil and Gas Leasing
- National Park Services Renames Yellowstone’s Mount Doane
- Biden Ignores New Mexico Native Americans, Bans Drilling Near Indigenous Site for 20 Years
Haaland is not halting her activist inanity ahead of the November election, either. She has revoked a Trump-era decision that would have opened millions of acres of federal land in Alaska to energy development and mining.
Haaland signed a record of decision, released Tuesday, formally nixing five public land orders issued in the closing weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency that would have lifted a mining and drilling ban on 28 million acres that was in place more than five decades.
The Interior secretary also signed a public land order that revokes the five “improperly issued” orders signed by then-Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. Haaland’s public land order takes effect Thursday, when it’s formally published in the Federal Register.
Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Senator Dan Sullivan took exception to the move.
Dunleavy said on social media Tuesday that the decision is “the latest sanction against Alaska by the Biden-Harris administration.”
“They are attempting to turn Alaska into one big national park,” Dunleavy said. “Alaska is still owed five million acres of land under the Statehood Act. Every one of these sanctions harms Alaska’s ability to prosper.”
Sullivan said in a statement that the decision “harms our jobs and economy, and our Alaska Native communities,” locking up acreage that he said the federal government owes to Alaskans.
It turns out the ban locks up more than 13 million acres of public land within the National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A), with little regard to how the native Alaskans actually view the land use.
“Joe Biden is doing everything he can to attack American energy,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said during a press conference late Thursday. “They’re going to prohibit oil production in, of all places, the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. That’s like saying no more picnics in Yellowstone National Park.”
…”While we obviously recognize the impacts of climate change on the Alaskan environment, the policy objectives of this administration do not negate congressional direction for the management of the Petroleum Reserve, nor do those objectives nullify the obligation to hear and consider the perspectives of the North Slope people that will be negatively impacted by this proposed rule,” several Native Alaskan leaders wrote in a comment letter to DOI.
I can’t wait for Harris to come out and say she is for opening Alaska up to oil and gas development, as she has adopted Trump positions so readily.
However, should she prevail in November, I fear officials even worse than Haaland may be installed.
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Q: What did Democrats use before candles?
A: Electricity.
Harris won’t ban fracking? My A$$. This article is her policy. They won’t even pay lip service to her claim by holding off on this until after the election.
Took them almost 4 years to reverse the Trump decision, given the requirements of the various administration acts from Congress. Once published in the Federal Register, it’ll take the new Trump administration another 4 years to reverse THAT.
Maybe it would be quicker to Simply release the land completely to the state of Alaska. Let the alaskans decide how to use it
Precisely. Their intent is to hamstring a new Trump administration’s ability to create a thriving economy. Energy is at the root of everything. If they can deny Trump energy, they deny him the fuel that creates wealth. This is nothing less than an attack on the prosperity of everyday Americans. The Dems don’t care about that, though, as their goal is to harm a political opponent. It demonstrates that they’re power-oriented, and don’t give a damn about the people.
[QUOTE]. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Senator Dan Sullivan took exception to the move.
Dunleavy said on social media Tuesday that the decision is “the latest sanction against Alaska by the Biden-Harris administration.” [/QUOTE]
If states can nullify federal laws regarding immigration by becomming “sanctuary states” and all the financial support that implies, why can’t Alaska nullify the “thou shalt not” order to cease drilling on public lands?
Asking for a friend.
Dementia Joe and Kamala would rather americans import from saudi and venezuelan dictators??
I wonder what the value of all that oil-rich federal-owned (but not national park) land in Alaska is.
We’ve got an awfully large debt. Selling off some assets wouldn’t be the worst thing.
Sell American land?
Who are you, China?
You don’t sell it to another COUNTRY.
I think it’s time to start calling these harris/biden policies. pedo joe is just shitting on the beach hoping small children come near.
Haaland in DC is just the same as she was in New Mexico. A dim bulb who waits for her “leaders” to tell her what to think and what to say. That’s why Biden appointed her.
I think we need several small nuclear reactors
Maybe we could pump oil where we don’t destroy our wilderness and oceans.
Surely west Texas is not fully explored
We got miles and mile of deserts, hoping miles and miles of deep oil, fracking heaven
“The Interior secretary also signed a public land order that revokes the five “improperly issued” orders”
Improperly-issued orders? Well, we can’t have that.
But chocking your Corvette’s wheels with top secret documents?
What’s the problem?.
Was this run by Amerindian, Liz Warren?
Who in their right mind would hamstring their own country’s energy production when we have reserves for 500 years?
These moves have all the earmarks of deliberate action to destroy our country’s economy and well-being.
I see you beat me to it by nine minutes! LOL