DoomsdaysCW<p>White House plans for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilAndGas</span></a> face hurdles – including from Trump and the industry </p><p>President Donald Trump says he wants to grow oil and gas production and advance the goal of what he calls U.S. 'energy dominance'</p><p> The Conversation<br> Apr 24, 2025</p><p>Excerpt: "In one of his first executive orders after retaking office on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump declared that the U.S. would develop Alaska’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/petroleum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petroleum</span></a> resources 'to the fullest extent possible.'</p><p>"The Biden administration had banned oil leasing in three areas of Alaska. One was all but 400,000 acres in the coastal plain portion of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArcticNationalWildlifeRefuge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArcticNationalWildlifeRefuge</span></a>. Another was a 13-million-acre swath of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, a massive parcel of federal land west of the refuge. The third area was 44 million acres of the offshore coastal portion of the northern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeringSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeringSea</span></a>, based on concerns for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TribalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TribalRights</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MigrationRoutes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MigrationRoutes</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineMammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineMammals</span></a>.</p><p>"Trump moved quickly to reverse all these bans, describing them as an 'assault on Alaska’s sovereignty and its ability to responsibly develop (its) resources for the benefit of the Nation.' And Trump went farther, expanding the available land by an additional 6 million acres in the petroleum reserve and another 1.1 million acres of the wildlife refuge.</p><p>"All those areas are home to many different types of wildlife, as well as Indigenous groups."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://ictnews.org/opinion/white-house-plans-for-alaska-oil-and-gas-face-hurdles-including-from-trump-and-the-industry" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ictnews.org/opinion/white-hous</span><span class="invisible">e-plans-for-alaska-oil-and-gas-face-hurdles-including-from-trump-and-the-industry</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianCountryToday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndianCountryToday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAlaskans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAlaskans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WildlifeRefuge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildlifeRefuge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDrilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDrilling</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoPipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoPipelines</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a></p>