“Though long expected, the final environmental impact statement is another sad development in this administration’s shameful race to destroy public lands by auctioning off wild, beautiful places for industrial development—in the middle of a global pandemic, no less,” said David Krause, The Wilderness Society’s assistant Alaska director.
“The existing IAP balanced conservation with demands for domestic oil production. And now, while a global oversupply of oil is holding down prices and forcing companies to reduce production, this administration wants to sell our public lands at bargain-basement prices for oil production the nation doesn’t need. It is unconscionable.”
This is another sad development in this administration’s shameful race to destroy public lands by auctioning off wild, beautiful places for industrial development. - David Krause, The Wilderness Society’s assistant Alaska director.
To accommodate oil drilling, the proposed new IAP—expected to be finalized in late July—shrinks the size of the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area that is vital habitat to the Teshekpuk Caribou Herd and thousands of migratory birds. Congress’ 1976 mandate required that the area receive “maximum protection.” Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama all enlarged the size of special areas in the Western Arctic.
As recently as last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service urged the administration to maintain protections for designated special areas in the reserve, saying, “full protection of these areas is necessary to sustain the biodiversity and ecologic integrity of the North Slope/coastal plain, especially given the impacts of climate change including increased coastal erosion and permafrost subsidence."
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