President’s energy policy recommends Arctic drilling - May 28, 2001

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryMay 2001

Vol. 6, No. 5

Week of May 28, 2001

President’s energy policy recommends Arctic drilling

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

The report of the National Energy Policy Development Group released May 17 recommended that President George W. Bush direct the Secretary of the Interior to consider additional environmentally responsible oil and gas development through further lease sales in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, including areas in the northwest corner where no leasing has occurred. (See story on page A1.)

It also recommended that the president direct the Secretary of the Interior to work with Congress to authorize exploration and, if resources are discovered, development of the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It said Congress should require the use of the best available technology in ANWR and should mandate that activities will result in no significant adverse impact to the surrounding environment.

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