The lack of interest from oil companies in development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reflects what we and they have known all along-there are some places too special and sacred to put at risk with oil and gas drilling, said Acting Deputy Interior Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis.
The U.S. was scheduled to hold a federal auction for some 400,000 acres of the refuge, the minimum required by the 2017 Tax Act, on Friday, but had required bidders to express interest in advance by a Jan. 6 deadline.
Trump's previous administration had sold oil and gas leases in ANWR in 2021, but the sale generated just $14.4 million in high bids, with an Alaska state agency as the sole bidder for most of the acreage sold.
The push to open the refuge has been decried by other native groups including the Gwich'in Steering Committee, which represents tribes that depend on the caribou for subsistence.
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