Officials from the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority criticized the U.S. Interior Department's cancelation of seven Trump-era oil leases in ANWR.
officials criticized the Biden administration's latest move to curb oil and gas drilling in the Arctic, following the cancelation of seven Trump-era leases in the Section 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Interior Department called the cancelation of the leases one of many"significant steps" the Biden administration has taken to protect ANWR. The move will accentuate President Biden's"historic conservation and climate agenda," the department said in a statement. An aerial view of oil development facilities in Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska on the edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
In response, AIDEA executive director Randy Ruaro told Fox News Digital in an interview Wednesday the cancelation appears to be a fulfillment of a Biden campaign promise to halt oil and gas production on federal lands.
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