The Biden administration's new protections for 1.3 million acres in the North Slope of Alaska aim to shield ecologically sensitive areas from potential drilling by fossil fuel companies.
Laura Daniel-Davis highlighted that the Bureau of Land Management will need to assess how drilling impacts subsistence hunting and fishing amidst a backdrop of extensive community consultations.
While the new protections create hurdles for drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the incoming Trump administration is expected to pursue broad access for fossil fuel companies.
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, established in 1923 for Navy oil, remains largely untouched but has significant oil reserves and an invaluable ecological habitat.
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