{"id":63304,"date":"2026-03-25T11:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63304"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:07:56","slug":"good-news-for-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63304","title":{"rendered":"Good News For Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, Just the News<\/a> posted an article about oil and gas lease sales in Alaska.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Department of Interior held an oil and gas lease sale this week for the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska (NPR-A). It was by every measure a huge success. The sale resulted in 187 leases and\u00a0generated $163 million<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sale brought in some of the big players in oil and gas, including Shell, Exxon, and ConocoPhillips. It signaled a lot of interest from the industry in oil and gas development on Alaska\u2019s North Slope.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a big win for Trump\u2019s unleashing American energy policy, but it\u2019s also a win for the North Slope I\u00f1upiat Alaska natives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Resource development provides over 95% of the North Slope\u2019s tax revenue, which supports essential services in the remote region, including schools, health clinics, water and sewer systems, and wildlife management.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Biden administration would often say it was listening to indigenous voices, but when those voices collided with the administration\u2019s climate goals,\u00a0Native Americans took a back seat<\/a>. Former President Joe Biden passed regulation after regulation restricting resource development, including oil, gas, and\u00a0mining<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Voice of the Arctic I\u00f1upiat (VOICE), a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that advocates for the Arctic Slope communities, spent years trying to get a\u00a0meeting with Deb Haaland<\/a>, Biden\u2019s interior secretary. She finally sat down with them in the summer of 2024.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThings have changed quite a bit. And I think it’s a testament to our membership, our advocacy and our constant, consistent messaging, no matter who’s in office,\u201d since the VOICE was founded in 2015, Nagruk Harcharek, president of VOICE, told\u00a0Just the News<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

One of the few projects that was allowed to move forward under the Biden administration was\u00a0ConocoPhillips\u2019 Willow Project<\/a>, which is expected to produce 180,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak. Harcharek said representatives of the company had to meet with the North Slope Borough and its constituents in the assembly as part of its local permitting process. Before it could move forward, the borough had to sign off and issue a permit for it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As projects move forward to develop the acreage sold in the lease sale this week, as well as those in the future, the industry will need to work with the boroughs as part of the permitting process for each project. Harcharek said the members of VOICE are finally getting a seat at the table \u2014 not only in allowing resource development but also in how it\u2019s done.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a say. When the time comes and these proposals move forward, they will have to go in front of the North Slope boroughs as well as the other organizations and elected leadership on the North Slope to be able to sell them and get them to move forward,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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