U.S. to Auction Almost 1 Million Acres Off Alaskan Coast for Oil Drilling

Good news! Bravo! We have to be thankful to one of the too few reasonable Democratic U.S. Senators!

"The United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), inside the Department of Interior, will put hundreds of thousands of acres off Alaska’s southcentral coast up for auction on December 30 for new oil and gas drilling projects. The lease sale has to be completed by the end of the year to comply with the IRA, which was added to the piece of legislation to win support from West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin. ..."

U.S. to Auction Almost 1 Million Acres Off Alaskan Coast for Oil Drilling The United States will auction nearly one million acres off the Alaskan coast for new oil and gas drilling in December, mandated in the so-called “Inflation” Reduction Act (IRA).