AK Corporation to pay Feds more than $3.6 million in ANWR rental fees for ’22, as Biden continues to block oil exploration
An Alaska-owned company would have to pay the federal government about $3.66 million to maintain oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to sue President Joe Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland earlier this month in federal court over the administration’s decision last summer to suspend oil exploration in Area 1002 of ANWR.
Haaland has released a order suspended all oil and gas exploration activities in June, citing “alleged legal deficiencies” and “insufficient analysis” of the environmental impact.
In its lawsuit against the order, AIDEA cited the Biden administration’s failure to comply with the Administrative Procedures Act and provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, among the alleged legal lapses. is different.
The Administrative Procedure Act requires the federal government to give public notice and time for comment before enacting major policy changes.
AIDEA further notes that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act requires the interior secretary, by law, to “establish and administer a competitive oil and gas program for leasing, development, production, and transportation.” oil and gas in and out of the Coastal Plains” by ANWR.
Don’t buy the bull. Only a small sliver of ANWR (Area 1002), dedicated to the potential drilling work of previous years, is affected by #TaxReformBill. Most ANWR will remain out of bounds for #energy Work. #copolitics #ANWR #TaxReformBill #gop #stop lying pic.twitter.com/ij099L7Vw2
– Sean Paige (@SeanPaige) December 3, 2017
Reuters reported that AIDEA has leased multiple properties for 10 years covering more than 360,000 acres.
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“The lease sale, which took place in January, builds on President Donald Trump’s plan to open up more land for fossil fuel mining and extraction,” according to the news agency.
ANWR, located in remote northeastern Alaska, includes 19.6 million acres.
Alan Weitzner, chief executive officer of AIDEA, in a Remember board to the public corporation’s board of directors, December 1, 2021, calling on the agency to pay the annual rental fee for 2022 as its case moves through the courts.
He listed the total as $3,657,550.
Alaska will have to pay more than $3.5 million next year to the federal government in annual payments on the oil leases of its Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (currently subject to of a lawsuit brought by a state opposing a Biden-admin-imposed suspension):https://t.co/14GJULpoEw #AKleg pic.twitter.com/lYN9RQS2Z6
– Nat Herz (@Nat_Herz) November 29, 2021
NS Anchorage Daily News reported that “as of early November, AIDEA has spent just over $12.8 million on its leases, an amount that includes the initial bid, first year of lease, and administrative costs,” according to the report. Spokesman Colleen Bryan.”
NS US Energy Information Administration in April indicated that oil production at the Border will finally reach its lowest level in more than 40 years in 2020.
The downtrend has continued since the late 80s and the opening of the ANWR, which has the capacity to hold more than 10 billion barrels of untapped oil reserves, offers an opportunity to reverse the trend.
A small discussed provision of Biden support Build back better law, passed House earlier this month, including the deregulation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that opened the ANWR to oil and gas exploration, according to Anchorage Daily News.
Following the passage of the bill, GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who member of the Senate Energy and Resources Committee, pledged to work with his colleagues to remove it from the Senate’s version of Build Back Better.
“Amid high energy prices and rising inflation, [energy] production from Alaska, including the potential 1002 region is needed more than ever,” she said in a post. declare.
“Despite this, House Democrats and the Biden administration are trying to get rid of it all through illegal misappropriation that will fundamentally change the way US leases are managed. States for decades.
“We will do everything we can to remove the ANWR provision – and others – from the settlement bill when it comes to Senate,” added Murkowski.
The senior senator from Alaska helped orchestrate the opening of the ANWR in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
However, Murkowski was later one of three Republicans who voted to endorse Haaland in March, although the nominee has made numerous public statements about her opposition to opening the ANWR.
Thanks. Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina voted two other Republicans, resulting in Haaland getting 51 votes confirm. Three Democratic senators chose not to vote.
trumpet commit in June to campaign against Murkowski’s re-election the following year after Haaland ordered a halt to ANWR oil development.
“Senator Lisa Murkowski cost Alaska’s greats trillions of dollars by voting for Biden Radical Left appointees, which resulted in the ANWR drilling revocation, something Alaskans have struggled to see happen for six decades,” the 45th president said in a statement declare.
“I think she will be met with a very harsh response by Alaska voters,” trumpet added, “and I’ll be there to campaign against her!”
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