Fort McPherson's Chief Wanda Pascal has been protecting the Porcupine caribou for decades. Finally, she had the chance to take that message to the US capital.
The official was discussing his potential employment with the company, Oil Search Ltd., beginning in May 2019, more than three months before he left the department.
The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority made the decision after fears that low industry interest in the planned Jan. 6 lease sale would doom future refuge drilling prospects.
Language is everything. Those who argue for oil drilling in the Arctic national wildlife refuge, a place of stunning wild beauty in far north-east Alaska, seldom call it what it is – a refuge. Instead, they reduce it to an acronym: ANWR.
The announcement removes a major hurdle to approving a plan to hunt for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, part of a push to allow drilling there by the Trump administration.
