The White House press service said in a statement that US President Joe Biden intends to revoke the previous administration’s permits to lease federal land in the state of Alaska for oil and gas production. The reason for this decision is that temperatures in the Arctic are rising twice as fast as in other parts of the world due to the climate crisis. This has been reported by TASS.
Biden stressed the importance of protecting the Arctic and its wildlife, and therefore stressed that the previous administration plans to cancel the remaining oil and gas production lease agreements signed in the Arctic Reserve. It will also help save more than 13 million acres of land in the Western Arctic.
The US Department of the Interior has announced that it is related to the cancellation of the remaining seven rental permits. This department is not a force; It deals with the use of federal lands and the extraction of natural resources, as well as programs related to indigenous peoples. In addition, the department will ban hydrocarbon extraction in a large area of northern Alaska.
Already during the election campaign in 2020, Biden announced his intention to completely stop issuing new licenses for the development of oil and gas fields on state lands and offshore. After the politician came to power, he instituted a moratorium on federal land leases for this purpose, but several state officials challenged this decision in court.
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