‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling
by Aisha Kehoe Down from Environment | The Guardian on (#6Z78A)
US Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the US
The Trump administration's plan to expand oil and gas drilling in a 23m acre reserve on the Arctic Ocean is sparking an impassioned response, amid fears it threatens Arctic wildlife, undermines the subsistence rights of Alaska Natives and imperils one of the fastest-warming ecosystems on Earth.
More than a quarter of a million people have responded to the 2 June proposal from the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to roll back protections on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), the largest tract of public land in the US.
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