Donald Trump He continues with the two questionable decisions against the environment and, in our opinion, also against progress: the secretary of the United States interiors Doug Burgum has announced the firm intention of removing the restrictions on the construction of a gnl oil pipeline and a mining road in Alaska, or of Alaska is checked again in search of oil and gas.
The announcement comes downstream of the signature of an executive order, one of the many of the president Donald Trump that continues his crusades against the environmentconvinced that restrictions in favor of respect for nature are barriers to energy development in the state.
And so, if all the plans are successful, the US plans to reopen the 82% available of the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska and the Coastal Plain of the Arcic National Wildlife Refuge 1.56 million acres for research and extraction of oil and gas.
The “Battle” Biden – Trump for the largest Alaska nature reserve
In 2020 Trumpat the end of his first mandate, he was working to sell the rights for oil extraction in Alaska and had started selling the oil lease contracts for theArctic National Wildlife Refuge Before the settlement of Joe Bidenwho had won the US presidential elections.
This leasing sale is a Another gift that the Trump administration is trying to obtain For its allies of the oil industry – said Adam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League – but it is disappointing that this administration until the end has maintained such a low consideration for American public landsor for the wildlife and the indigenous communities that depend on them
But in September 2023, after several pressures from environmental organizations, the president Joe Biden He had announced the stop to the gas and oil draws in the same reserve, threatened by the policies of Trump.
The layoffs and project 2025 of the Trump government
The US Republican Party has never hidden questionable climate positions and in general on environmental protection: in its ‘project 2025’ in fact it defines the laws on the protection of the environment an “obstacle to economic development”.
In the name of this “project” the US said farewell to the Paris agreements and canceled any reference to climate change from government sites, which was followed by the revocation of all concessions for wind projects offshorethus making another huge step back in the road to the green transition.
To follow, Trump He has signed an executive order by affirming that departments and government agencies should no longer buy and use paper straws in the future, aiming for the return to the exclusive use of plastic.
The Last But Not The Least, In two months of Trumpian government, they have so far recorded:
Trump returns to the attack of the Arctic
According to what reported by Reuters The current US administration would already have The restrictions on the land revoked along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Corridor and the Dalton Highway north of the Yukon river and transferred the land to the state of Alaska, effectively opening the way for the proposal Ambler road which consists in opening a road of about 340 kilometers connected to a mining district (rejected by the government Biden), and to the project Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas Pipeline.
It is time for the United States to embrace the abundant and largely unused resources of Alaska as a path towards prosperity for the nation
declares “proud” Burgum
The steps back continue tirelessly.
Source: Reuters
