Trump officials rush to auction off rights to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before Biden can..
Source: Washington Post
Trump officials rush to auction off rights to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before Biden can block it
Officials aim to sell drilling rights to iconic wilderness coastal plain before Joe Biden takes office
By Juliet Eilperin
November 16, 2020 at 11:14 a.m. EST
The Trump administration has called for oil and gas firms to pick spots where theyd like to drill on Alaskas Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as it races to open the pristine wilderness to development and lock in drilling rights before president-elect Joe Biden takes office.
The call for nominations to be published Tuesday allows companies to identify tracts theyd like to bid on during an upcoming lease sale on the refuges nearly 1.6-million acre coastal plain, which the Interior Department aims to hold before Biden takes the oath of office in January. The move would be a capstone of President Trumps efforts to open up public lands to logging, mining and grazing something Biden strongly opposes.
Trump's rolled back more than 125 environmental policies. Another 40 rollbacks are underway.
A GOP-controlled Congress in 2017 authorized drilling on the refuge, a vast wilderness home to tens of thousands of migrating caribou and waterfowl, along with polar bears and Arctic foxes.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/11/16/arctic-refuge-drilling-trump/
Yonnie3
(17,515 posts)woodsprite
(11,940 posts)Cirque du So-What
(26,025 posts)One in four. If all four lawsuits fail, it's a fucking travesty that must be rectified.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/09/10/15-states-sue-to-stop-drilling-plan-for-arctic-refuge/
iluvtennis
(19,897 posts)moreland01
(744 posts)I'm going to assume that the lawsuits are going to take a while to process through the system. Hopefully, they will be ongoing well in to Joe Biden's administration. If that's the case, can't his administration just cancel the program before it ever gets implemented. In other words, cave to the lawsuits? If the new Administration won't defend the program in court against the environmental group's actions, then the programs are defacto defuncto, right?
Happy Hoosier
(7,454 posts)Until Biden can cancel this bullshit.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)also, "the rush to drill here seems to have been more about politics than economics."
New Day, July 2018. From CNN Transcript:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/24/nday.04.html
We really have to stop this.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,601 posts)If it is raped by drilling companies, they'll use that as a reason to permit drilling in national parks and other protected lands. "You let us drill in ANWR..."
So much of the damage Trump has done will take decades to undo. Fuck Trump. Fuck the GOP. Fuck MAGAts.
I hope Trump has a COVID relapse and spends his remaining years on a ventilator.
Maraya1969
(22,509 posts)recently.
Maybe any company that puts a bid in should be sued privately - not sure what for yet but others are more creative.
Bayard
(22,204 posts)Any company that buys into it is going to be sorely disappointed and foolish.
bucolic_frolic
(43,443 posts)If Walmart can do it, why can't the U.S. Government?
SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)today, being that the world economy is so messed up today w/the CoronaVirus epidemic.
There's already a pretty big glut on world markets for oil, they are running out of tankers to put excess oil into.
machoneman
(4,016 posts)..any equipment, let alone drilling, can be moved in. More likely, court challenges will delay any efforts to actually drill....and by that time, Joe will be in office.
I will guess though that somehow Trumpy will personally benefit, maybe cash under the table, for making this move. 'Course he'll easily get caught here if true as they are the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight! Or, a Ship of Fools where Rudy is the captain!
usaf-vet
(6,232 posts)That why he was so desperate to win a second term.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,869 posts)DARTH VADER thinks TRUMP is a dick...
geomon666
(7,512 posts)in a galaxy far, far away.
LogicFirst
(573 posts)Unfortunate, but true.
OhioTim
(259 posts)Close any federal roads to the refuge. Inform bidders that the will forfeit any federal help as companies in terms of infrastructure, tax breaks etc.
FM123
(10,054 posts)pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)If the rape of this area is allowed to happen, the area may never recover and so much will be lost forever. No money is worth losing this unique land. I can only pray that it doesn't happen, and that those that are doing this are appropriately punished - for the rest of their miserable lives.
bucolic_frolic
(43,443 posts)Don't let anyone fool you this is just Trump. This is a long term plan of thievery and irresponsible stewardship against ANWR which was set aside by Senate vote in the Eisenhower Administration.
Thekaspervote
(32,819 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,869 posts)No one should ever join their party again. Start a NEW PARTY...you're party deserves to just die.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)Others that will help pay off that $400 million personal debt coming due !
Bigredhunk
(1,351 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,431 posts)The only wildlife loving he does is grabbing women by the puzzy
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)cstanleytech
(26,347 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,163 posts)Wouldnt be so in love with oil derricks.
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Mendocino
(7,520 posts)He also after uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and the metal exploration in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in Minnesota.
modrepub
(3,504 posts)First, I'd be wary of any lease this administration put together in haste. There's bound to be some administrative slip up that will be tied up in court making the lease a money suck.
Second, a lease only allows you to extract the oil. It doesn't cover any permitting costs or cover all of the costs to develop the oil field. Developing an oil field in the Arctic is expensive. We probably talking many tens of billions of dollars. Oil companies, if you haven't heard, are not the financial juggernauts they used to be. A lot of oil companies have gone bankrupt or dropped off the main stock indexes. They will have difficulty pledging their stock as collateral and most banks will increase their lending interest rates to offset the chance that the oil field won't pan out.
Bottom line, they can have the leases. But they're taking a chance this maladministration screwed up on the lease guaranteeing themselves years of litigation. And in the end, they probably don't have the financing to develop the field any time in the near future.