National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska

We've never done anything like it.

In March, we signed the largest oil and gas lease sale in the history of Alaska National Petroleum Reserve.

Doug, good job.

Howard, good job.

That's due to a new rule the Trump administration announced last week.

The Alaska Beacon reports the U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued the rule for exploration activities in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

The BLM said it's granting a categorical exclusion to streamline permitting for most activities that would otherwise require individual environmental analysis under federal law.

The exclusion means that past environmental studies of exploration and development activities are considered sufficient to guide future exploration work, according to the agency.

I used to work on the North Slope of Alaska in the oil industry.

The work we were doing required us to travel far out into the Alaska Petroleum Reserve, which is based just untamed tundra wilderness for hundreds of miles.

The oil companies would build these long ice roads in the winter that would lead to exploration drilling pads.

Our job was to go out after they finished the initial drilling and test rock formations for that oil producing qualities.

The Republicans may be more concerned about the, the pocketbooks, uh, truckers and the working class.

But I think Trump is going to, uh, if, i-if he has to empty out the National Petroleum Reserve and either, uh, lead to a collapse of the, of the salt, uh, taverns or, uh, caverns or the, uh, pollution of it, he'll do anything to keep desperate, to keep the price of, uh, gas and diesel oil and air fuel low.

Although you're having diesel prices rise all-- rise, and that's increasing the cost of, uh, f-food, crops, and any other products that are shipped by trucking or railroads.

But I, I-- but people are going to see, "Well, you know, we're only concerned with our cars, not with, uh, that." On the other hand, urban populations, uh, may not be as concerned as rural populations with this.

One of the reasons why we have such tight energy prices is is because Biden, you know, was pushing on all these, he was choking off all these methods of oil and gas recovery while he was president.

He canceled drilling contracts and offshore drilling and, you know, depleted the National Petroleum Reserve and all that kind of stuff.

So, I mean, that was the Democratic Party.

They had gone socialist a long, long time ago.

I mean, we're roughly a third of the size of the country when you think about how massive this state is.

And we can talk about ANWR, NPRA, you know, whether it's North Slope, Cook Inlet, Alaska genuinely has the ability to power the rest of the country.

And so we don't need-

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