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Alaska Appeals over ANWR Boundary Dispute

By Alaska Department of Law on Apr 9, 2022   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Alaska Appeals over ANWR Boundary Dispute

(Anchorage, AK) – The State of Alaska is challenging the 2020 Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) decision that found land in dispute at the northwestern boundary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) belongs to the federal government and not the State of Alaska. In 2016, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) denied the State’s […]

Groups Welcome Biden Review But Demand Congress Permanently Protect Arctic Refuge From Drilling

By Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams on Aug 4, 2021   Featured, General News, North Slope/Northwest Alaska  

Groups Welcome Biden Review But Demand Congress Permanently Protect Arctic Refuge From Drilling

Activists urge lawmakers to reverse a relevant 2017 law, “cancel the leases issued by the Trump administration, and shut down this dangerous drilling program once and for all.” Indigenous and environmental groups on Tuesday welcomed the U.S. Interior Department’s decision to review the Trump administration’s controversial move opening up previously protected land in Alaska to drilling […]

Biden to scrap Trump environmental review of oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Refuge

By Corey Himrod | Alaska Wilderness League on Aug 3, 2021   Featured, General News, North Slope/Northwest Alaska  

Biden to scrap Trump environmental review of oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Refuge

  Washington — Tuesday, the Biden administration, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, and the U.S. Department of the Interior announced via Notice of Intent in the Federal Register plans to begin a new environmental review of oil and gas development on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.   Statement by Kristen Miller, Acting […]

Gwich’in leaders thank the Biden administration and Secretary Haaland for taking another step toward protecting sacred lands in the Arctic Refuge and call for further action

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Jun 2, 2021   Featured, General News, North Slope/Northwest Alaska  

Gwich’in leaders thank the Biden administration and Secretary Haaland for taking another step toward protecting sacred lands in the Arctic Refuge and call for further action

The Gwich’in Steering Committee thanks the Biden administration and Secretary Haaland for pausing the leasing program for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and suspending  leases of sacred lands. Now it calls on the administration to continue to take action to protect these lands. “The Gwich’in Nation is grateful and heartened by the news that the […]

Biden Urged to Go Further After ‘Strong Step’ Toward Protecting Arctic Refuge From Drilling

By Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams on Jun 2, 2021   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, Politics, State  

Biden Urged to Go Further After ‘Strong Step’ Toward Protecting Arctic Refuge From Drilling

“While this buys some time, the fight to protect this unique and pristine area is not over,” said an Environment America campaigner. “We’re calling on Congress to establish permanent protections.” Environmental campaigners in Alaska and across the country are cautiously celebrating the Biden administration’s Tuesday decision to suspend some fossil fuel drilling leases that were […]

Congressman Don Young Introduces the ANWR Act to Prohibit Executive Actions Harmful to Responsible Energy Development

By Zack Brown | Office of Representative Young on Mar 10, 2021   Featured, Politics, State  

Congressman Don Young Introduces the ANWR Act to Prohibit Executive Actions Harmful to Responsible Energy Development

Washington, D.C. – Tuesday, Alaska Congressman Don Young introduced the America Needs Worthwhile Resources (ANWR) Act. The ANWR Act comes in response to President Biden’s recent Executive Orders issuing a moratorium on oil and gas leasing on federal lands, including on the Coastal Plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The ANWR Act prohibits […]

Groups Await Their Day in Court After Judge Rules Against Injunction in Arctic Refuge Case

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Jan 6, 2021   Featured, General News, North Slope/Northwest Alaska  

Groups Await Their Day in Court After Judge Rules Against Injunction in Arctic Refuge Case

ANCHORAGE (AK)— The Gwich’in Steering Committee and allied groups await their day in court after a U.S. District Court decided not to grant their request for an injunction that would have prevented the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from authorizing winter seismic work and issuing leases of lands in the coastal plain of the Arctic […]

Trump Administration Rushes to Auction Off Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling Rights Before Biden Inauguration

By Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams on Nov 17, 2020   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Trump Administration Rushes to Auction Off Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling Rights Before Biden Inauguration

The pristine reserve is home to the Gwich’in people, who call it “Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit,” or, “the sacred place where life begins.” In what critics are calling a parting gift to the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration on Tuesday will ask oil and gas companies to choose which areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge […]

Rushed, Reckless Seismic Testing Imperils Wildlife, Stifles the American Public’s Voice

By Mary Jo Brooks | NWF on Oct 23, 2020   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Rushed, Reckless Seismic Testing Imperils Wildlife, Stifles the American Public’s Voice

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 23, 2020) — The Department of Interior’s headlong rush to conduct seismic testing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge threatens iconic wildlife and Indigenous communities that depend on this pristine land. The rushed, 14-day comment period — in the midst of a global pandemic — all but ensures that the public’s […]

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