Biden Blocks New Alaska Oil and Gas Leases to Save Polar Bears, Caribou, Blocks Key Mining Road
The Biden administration announced two major wins for the far-left environmentalists last Friday: it will block new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres in Alaska’s federal petroleum reserve to protect local wildlife caribou and polar bears, and it will stop development on an access road for mining companies that was previously approved by the Trump administration.
Biden announced the government is blocking the development of the “Ambler Road,” a 211-mile access road that would have given mining companies the ability to access leased land for mineral development.
The far-left environmentalist group the Sierra Club called the decision a “major victory.”
Photo of a polar bear by Hans-Jurgen Mager on Unsplash
This Biden decision bans oil and gas drilling in nearly half of the Alaska petroleum reserve.
