Monday, the Trump administration move to open Millions of Alaska protected fauna acres for the petroleum and gas industry to be exploited. The action comes after the industry donated millions to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2024.
Interior secretary and a failed presidential candidate Doug Burgum said the government would cancel the prohibition to form the national oil-alaska national reserve. The territory of Almost 23 million acres is the largest contiguous region of unstructed public lands in the United States. It is a vital territory for thousands of migratory birds, caribou, fish and other marine lives, which would be threatened by the drilling of fuel.
Kristen Miller, executive director of Alaska Wilderness League, said in a declaration The Trump action “would make sure that the protections in the most important areas of the west of the Arctic” and that the new direction would threaten “wildlife, local communities and our climate”.
“These lands are home to caribou, migratory birds and vital subsistence resources on which the indigenous communities have relied for generations. The public fought for these protections, and we will not remain silent while they are dismantled,” she added.
Trump administration growth So that the oil companies drone in the region and planned to put pressure for the construction of a gas pipeline in the region.
The Sierra Club, which recommends the protection of natural resources and habitats, has echoed the concerns of Wilderness League.
“Donald Trump tries to write the west of the Arctic with an arc for large oil CEOs. Cancel this rule would send us back at the time when oil and gas companies had free reasons to unravel our public lands for money on the dollar, and American families were left by holding the bag,” said Ben Jealous, the American executive director, and the American families bag, “said Ben Jealous, executive director of the group, in a declaration.
The fully republican congress delegation of Alaska, the sensational Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and the representative of Place Nick Begich, support the plan. Murkowski, who has slightly criticized Trump’s wider dictatorial actions, praised the decision For having allegedly allowed “Alaska to produce more energy”.
Trump’s decision is a reversal of the Biden administration, which set up the regulations in 2024 intended to protect the region now in Trump. The Earthly Environmental Group rented Biden At the time, noting that federal rules were protecting birds, bears, caribou and other species.
The decision to open the national oil-alaska national reserve comes after Trump pushed in April for Increased borehole in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of the disastrous oil spill of BP 2010, which released millions of barrels of oil in the water, killing tens of thousands animals and harm health people responsible for cleaning it.
During the 2024 elections, Trump said Oil leaders, he would make the environmental protections adopted by Biden go back if they gave money to his campaign. And they did it, Mill to Trump and other republican candidates.
Now, oil companies should take with their man in the White House. Birds, fish and bears will have to die.
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