SO, ANWR is Doomed?

[MrWowWow]

LardASS and his crime family have actively moved to open ANWR and nearby Arctic lands for drilling. They reversed prior restrictions and proposed expansive leasing, drawing both legal scrutiny and environmental backlash.
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.1. Reuters – “Trump administration to open more Alaska acres for oil, gas drilling”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-open-more-alaska-acres-oil-gas-drilling-2025-03-20/


2. Department of the Interior (DOI) – “Interior Secretary Takes Steps to Unleash Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential”
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-secretary-takes-steps-unleash-alaskas-extraordinary-resource-potential


3. Reuters – “Trump administration moves to expand oil and gas leasing in Alaska reserve”
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-administration-moves-expand-oil-gas-leasing-alaska-reserve-2025-06-17/


4. Alaska Beacon – “Interior secretary announces plans to advance new Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil leasing”
https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/03/20/interior-secretary-announces-plans-to-advance-new-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-oil-leasing/


5. Washington Post – “Interior to open millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/20/alaska-drilling-trump-anwr/


6. NRDC – “Trump Interior Secretary's Orders Make Public Lands Ground Zero for Drilling & Mining”
https://www.nrdc.org/media/trump-interior-secretarys-orders-make-public-lands-ground-zero-drilling-mining

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Good Grief!!! I thought ANWR were protected lands!

[modrepub]

2. Nobody Wants To Drill There

No infrastructure to get whatever oil is there to market. Would take many years just to set things up and get production going. And steel tariffs just made drilling more expensive.

Without higher oil prices or massive subsidies there won’t be anything happening.

[MadameButterfly]

3. i'm guessing massive subsidies

If Trump wants it to happen, he won't care if it's actually profitable. Kind of like his deportation scheme.
That's how he racked up several bankruptcies.

[gab13by13]

4. Exactly, Krasnov does quid pro quos,

The fossil fuel industry gave him millions of dollars so they get rewarded with subsidies.

The Big farms that also gave Krasnov millions of dollars will get amnesty for their undocumented workers and are being deregulated.

Krasnov does this to send out a message.

[MadameButterfly]

5. And what it does to the finances of the country

doesn't matter. He has lived his life doing deficit spending and not having to answer to the consequences.

[mopinko]

7. as it thaws, it gets worse.

they wont b able to count on ice roads.

[harumph]

6. No. Even the oil companies admit there is currently no compelling reason - market wise, to drill there

He threw the dog a bone, but the dog is not interested.
If by the time a market reason exists, hopefully the leases can be rescinded.