Saturday, October 25, 2025

White House Approves Increased Drilling in Alaska National Wildlife Refuge

The Guardian: On Thursday, the interior secretary announced the opening of 1.56m acres across ANWR's coastal plains, which is home to various wildlife including polar bears, caribou and moose, as well as whales and seals.

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The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation's most sensitive wilderness areas. n.pr/42WZfy6

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-- NPR (@npr.org) Oct 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM

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The greedy, selfish psychopathic Republican oligarchs will destroy America's natural resources while making obscene profits.

Metal Traders Making Tons of Money;

Dig! Destroy! Don't Care!;

USG will reimburse fossil fuel companies.

Worst. Administration. Ever.


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-24 01:28 AM

Not just Alaska ...

Trump plans to open almost all of coast to offshore drilling
www.union-bulletin.com

... The Trump administration is readying a proposal to open almost all U.S. coastal waters to new offshore oil drilling despite opposition from state governors and the president's previous efforts to close off some of the territory.

The draft plan for selling oil leases includes waters near the southeast U.S. that President Donald Trump tried to close off while campaigning for reelection five years ago, a nod to Republican allies worried about the risk of spills fouling beaches and their tourism-tied economies.

Documents detailing the expansive Interior Department proposal were reviewed by Bloomberg News. It isn't clear that the drafted plans have been presented to Trump for his approval; they could change before they are published.

A spokesperson for the Interior Department said the agency won't comment on deliberative information, but added that it "has been clear that there is a national energy emergency and all options to combat that crisis and win the AI race against China are on the table." ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-24 07:53 PM

Great, just great. As if the Gulf of Mexico doesn't have enough of a Dead Zone or flesh-eating bacteria and the waters off San Diego are polluted so much that USN Seal candidates have gotten sick.

I guess Republicans don't enjoy seafood or the beaches.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-24 10:26 PM

So instead of ugly windmills and solar farms off Florida and Mar a Lardo beaches we will get oil rigs?

Why not suck up profits as fast as we can before the felon is "out" of office?

#4 | Posted by randomcanyon at 2025-10-25 11:22 AM

The world is moving away from petroleum as an energy source. Also too... (as Sarah would say)... Alaska was building and investing in a shipping infrastructure because of its proximity to major East Asian countries. This trade war can hurt them... big time.

Oil-producing industry... (on the precipice of decline)... red-state depending on government handouts... a Hail Mary pass if ever I saw one.

Alaska is losing population.

The boomers who built the pipeline oil infrastructure are aging out... and their children want to gtfo... the white ones anyway.

#5 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-10-25 01:12 PM

FTR... I know... petroleum is here to stay because of other products produced from it... so it will always have value... BUT... I think its status for energy will decline.

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-10-25 01:16 PM

That should speed up that pesky global warming....

#7 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-10-25 05:29 PM

Cool.

But they still aren't going to drill in it.

It's not financially worth it currently.

#8 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-25 06:03 PM

It's not financially worth it currently.

#8 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-25 06:03 PM | Reply | Flag: YEP

Exactly! If Big Oil wants to extract oil somewhere, it will. Nothing or no one stops it. It plays along with Greenpeace or whoever objects, but always wins extraction rights. The protests justify the costs.

#9 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-10-26 01:55 AM

It's not financially worth it currently.
#8 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-25 06:03 PM | Reply | Flag: YEP
Exactly! If Big Oil wants to extract oil somewhere, it will. Nothing or no one stops it. It plays along with Greenpeace or whoever objects, but always wins extraction rights. The protests justify the costs.

#9 | Posted by RightisTrite

They have more than enough leases and ANWR isn't attached to the existing oil fields up there. So for them, it's just not financially worth drilling there currently.

#10 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-26 02:08 AM

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