Regional Report: The Arctic
In the Arctic Circle, oil and gas interests are often a study of polar opposites. To some it looks like riches; for others, potential ruin.
View ArticleCourt allows Trump’s Arctic refuge drilling auction to proceed
The decision is a victory for the administration, which has been racing to issue oil leases in the refuge’s coastal plain before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
View ArticleBid review begins in rare auction of Alaskan Arctic drilling rights
The Bureau of Land Management was set to begin opening sealed bids for 10-year leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain Wednesday afternoon, less than a day after a federal judge...
View ArticleSupermajors steer clear of Trump’s Arctic drilling lease auction
Amid low crude prices, fears about a backlash from the public and the prospect of regulatory uncertainty, just two oil companies placed bids on leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal...
View ArticleOutgoing Interior chief says Arctic oil leases will survive Biden
“You can write a lot of executive orders, but an executive order doesn’t get you past go,” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said on his last full day leading the Interior Department. “They still have...
View ArticleAlaska Native leaders react to Biden’s executive orders
In the days before taking office, President Biden promised to unify the country. Then, in his first order of business, promptly alienated Alaska and other states that rely on energy development to keep...
View ArticleWorld Oil editorial: Biden-led USFWS runs roughshod over Native Alaskan...
Well, it didn’t take any time at all for the Biden Administration to show its true colors in dealing with oil and gas matters in Alaska.
View ArticleCanada moves forward with one of the “world’s largest” carbon capture and...
The proposed carbon storage hub would be connected to a transportation line that would initially gather captured CO2 from an anticipated 14 oil sands facilities in the Fort McMurray, Christina Lake and...
View ArticleBiden backs scaled-down drilling plan for ConocoPhillips’ Alaska oil project
The Biden administration telegraphed it could support a scaled-back drilling plan at ConocoPhillips’s proposed Willow project in northwest Alaska, even as it cited “substantial concerns” with the oil...
View ArticleAn unlikely Arctic oil boom has a lesson in progress for Trump
With the oil industry barely recovering from its most brutal slump in decades, you might expect the Arctic Ocean to be the last place explorers would hunt for new discoveries.
View ArticleHouse to vote on barring Arctic drilling to squeeze GOP in 2020
The House is poised to vote Thursday to again bar oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as Democrats seek to put Republicans on the record on tough environmental issues for...
View ArticleTrump administration paves way for Arctic drilling rights sale
The Trump administration on Thursday took a major step toward auctioning oil drilling rights across every acre of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain, hours after the House of...
View ArticleRegional Report: The Arctic
In the Arctic Circle, oil and gas interests are often a study of polar opposites. To some it looks like riches; for others, potential ruin.
View ArticleWorld Oil editorial: Biden-led USFWS runs roughshod over Native Alaskan...
Well, it didn’t take any time at all for the Biden Administration to show its true colors in dealing with oil and gas matters in Alaska.
View ArticleAn unlikely Arctic oil boom has a lesson in progress for Trump
With the oil industry barely recovering from its most brutal slump in decades, you might expect the Arctic Ocean to be the last place explorers would hunt for new discoveries.
View ArticleHouse to vote on barring Arctic drilling to squeeze GOP in 2020
The House is poised to vote Thursday to again bar oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as Democrats seek to put Republicans on the record on tough environmental issues for...
View ArticleTrump administration paves way for Arctic drilling rights sale
The Trump administration on Thursday took a major step toward auctioning oil drilling rights across every acre of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain, hours after the House of...
View ArticleRegional Report: The Arctic
In the Arctic Circle, oil and gas interests are often a study of polar opposites. To some it looks like riches; for others, potential ruin.
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