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Biden Admin Locks In Major Restrictions On Alaskan Oil, Mining

The Biden administration finalized major restrictions on 28 million acres of Alaskan land on Tuesday.

The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced that it is retaining protections from mining and drilling on the 28 million acres, reversing the Trump administration’s moves to end those protections and allow for mining and oil and gas development. The Biden DOI said that their predecessors did not sufficiently analyze the effects of removing those protections and did not appropriately communicate with tribal stakeholders.

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Tuesday’s actions are the latest by the Biden administration to crack down on productive extraction of natural resources in the state, which has been subject to more than 50 executive actions from the administration, according to the office of Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The administration has effectively killed the state’s Pebble Mine project, restricted leasing on 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) and retroactively canceled seven previously-issued oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Bearing in mind that neither Biden nor his DIE protege Kamilla have participated in running the country the past four years, the question arises: who is in charge? Whoever they are, they weren’t elected by the citizens they wish to rule.