Deadhors, Alaska – Three members of the Trump Cabinet A tour began At a key point of operations in a prolific oil field near the Arctic Ocean in Alaska on Monday, part of a several -day trip aimed at highlighting Push of President Donald Trump to expand oil and gas drilling, mining and registration in the state.
The arrival of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, energy secretary Chris Wright and the administrator of the Lee Zeldin Environmental Protection Agency in Deadhorse arrived hours after the Burgum agency said it would continue with plans to plans repeal the restrictions of the Biden era On the future lease and industrial development in parts of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
The oil reserve is west of Deadhorse, which is located in Prudhoe Bay at the starting point for the trans-allaska pipe system of almost 50 years and 800 miles (1,287 kilometers).
It was also expected that government and industry representatives of several Asian countries participated in a part of the trip of US officials, since Trump has focused renewed attention on a huge and proposed Natural gas pipe project that Alaska officials have sought for decades as a way of providing gas to residents and foreign markets. The project has fought to gain traction amid costs and other concerns, and even some state legislators remain skeptical, it will be completed.
Wright said on Monday that the gas line could become the “large and beautiful twin” of the oil pipe. This followed Burgum ‘comments one day before the gas project entails possible benefits of national security if the United States can sell liquefied natural gas to allies in Asia.
Trump’s officials joined on Monday by a group that included the American senator Dan Sullivan and governor Mike Dunleavy, both Republicans, who also participated in meetings on Sunday in Anchorage and Utqiagvik. In that Arctic Community, that this time of the year experiences 24 hours of daylight, many native Alaska leaders support Trump’s impulse for greater perforation in the oil reserve and open the National Arctic Wildlife Refuge to the Development of Petroleum. They praised the visit after regretting that they felt ignored by the administration of former President Joe Biden.
The American senator Lisa Murkowski, a vocal criticism of Trump, on time, joined Sunday’s meeting in Anchorage, where she said that Alaska leaders “want to partner with you. We want to be so the same at the table instead of late occurrence.”
Alaska’s political leaders have complained for a long time about federal overreach perceived by the United States government, which supervises about 60% of the lands in Alaska. Sullivan, Murkowski and Dunleavy have complained that the Biden team was too heavy and restrictive in their approach to many resources development problems.
The environmentalists criticized the planned reversal of the interior of the restrictions in parts of the oil reserve designated as special for their wildlife, subsistence or other values. While Sullivan described repeal as a priority, saying that Congress was intended to have development in the oil reserve, environmentalists argue that the law balances the assignments for oil drilling with the need to provide protections for sensitive areas.
The Department of the Interior said that he will accept public comments on the planned repeal.
The visit of Trump’s officials is also scheduled to include addressing Dunleavy’s annual conference on Tuesday in Anchorage.
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Bohrer reported from Juanau, Alaska.
