Article 6RWSZ Alaska governor awards $1m in state funds to Indigenous group backing oil drilling

Alaska governor awards $1m in state funds to Indigenous group backing oil drilling

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Tim Lydon in Anchorage
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Voice of the Arctic Inupiat is a backer of the controversial Willow oil drilling project

The administration of Alaska's Republican governor, Mike Dunleavy, awarded at least $1m in state funds to a group claiming to represent a consensus of Indigenous support for new Arctic oil drilling, new research shows.

The group, called Voice of the Arctic Inupiat (VAI), had just months earlier communicated with the governor's office on ways to counter other Alaska Native groups opposed to new drilling.

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