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:
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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