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Juneau, Alaska – The Trump Administration sends three members of the cabinet in Alaska this week, because it carries out oil drilling in the untouched wildlife center in an untouched Arctic National Wilderness and re-manage a Natural gas project It refers to years.

Visit to the Department for Internal Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Administrator Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin comes after Trump signed the executive order Earlier this year aimed at strengthening the drilling of oil and gas, mining and felling in Alaska. Comes and in the middle of Tariff conversations With Asian countries that are considered a possible impact on the administration to provide investments in the proposed liquefied natural gas project of Alaska.

Their plan includes a Sunday with a meeting with a group of resource development and the sensor. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski in anchorage before they are located in Utqiagvik, the sacrifice that rich in oil quotation marks see oil development as economically vital for the region.

Federal officials also plan to visit the oil field of Prudhoe Bay near the coast of the Arctic Ocean and more than 850 miles (1,368 kilometers) north of the anchorage – and spoke in the Republic Govica Mike Dunleavy’s annual Energy Conference on the Equipment Tuesday.

Although it is not unusual for American officials to visit Alaska during a warmer time month, Dunleavy’s office said that the visits of officials were significant. Dunleavy, Trump AllyHe said he was grateful for the administration to “recognize the unique value of Alaska”.

The Government and Industrial representatives from the number of Asian countries are expected, including Japan, who participated in the part of the trip, reflecting the US pressure to the pipeline – despite skepticism and opposition from the environment.

In Alaska, some ecologists criticized the agenda for the Dunleavy conference. The highlighting of fossil fuels with renewable or alternative energy “energy sources from the past seem to legitimates at the conference like this,” Andy Moderow said, a higher director of politics with Alaska wilderness.

“I think we should look at the climate solutions working for Alaska, and not trying to open places that the industry passes, namely the Arctic haven,” he said.

Trump has long taken over the loan for the provisions of the Law for 2017. year, which is in Alasian congress delegation that called on two sales of oil and gas in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Help of Wildlife by the end of 2024. Years. First Remains the subject of current litigation, with the main bidder of the State Corporation that saw Seven leases later canceled From the then President Joe Biden. Judge in March The Government’s Biden Administration also exceeded the internal department, in accordance with the Trump’s executive account, is working on returning the lease.

There was no bids in the second sale, held under biden and exploded by the state as overly restrictive.

Discussion on drilling in the shelter – home by polar bears, musk will, birds and other wildlife – long time to remember. The autochthonous leaders of Gwich’in consider the coastal ordinary world, noting their importance on the caribou herd to which they rely on.

Much Northern Slope Iñupiat Leaders Who supports drilling in the refuge felt that their voices were not heard during the Biden Ere. During the visit of Trump, they also hope to make a case for additional development in the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska, which Trump advocated, and for inclusion in decision planning.

Narruk Harcharek, President of the Voice of Arctic Iñupiat, the advocacy group whose members involve leaders from the region, called the “Step in the right direction officers.

For years, the state sought to develop its natural gas trafficking in the northern slope as a way to provide more accessible energy of several inhabitants and stronger income income. But cost concerns, shifts in directionThe competition from other projects and issues on the economic feasibility has realized the progress. Petroleum companies have long exposed gas that appeared with oil deposits on a slope for more oil production, which remains Alaska economic life.

The latest Gas proposal calls for approximately 810 kilometers) pipeline that would wear gas from the northern slope to the port and an object that would process and export liquefied natural gas into Asian countries. In the March Speech, Trump broke out his permanent support of the “giant natural gas pipeline”. He said that countries like Japan and South Korea “want to be our partner, and investments of trillion dollars each.” Solid obligations from the countries have not been made.

The company progressing in the project – in partnership with the State Corporation – in the stage of estimation of cost refining, previously applied to about 44 billion dollars for pipeline and related infrastructure, before the final decisions are made to make final decisions.

While Dunleavy is similar to Trump’s friendly development as “Christmas,” Alaska wealth remain tightly associated with oil prices, which suddenly lowered from a year ago, shrinking on a sharp.

State representatives throughout party lines are predominant to provide the resolution of inviting congresses to Alaska with 90% copyright income for oil and gas leases in the Arctic haven, arctive for such a share. The resolution also asked to extend to the reserve oil.

Alaskan Tax Structure allows companies such as conocophillips Alaska – which is carried out by a A massive oil project known as willow In the reserve – for write-off part of their development costs against production taxes incurred elsewhere on the North Padina. While MPs are widely supported by willow, they also claimed that the change in the share of the Federal Royalty will deal with the goal of state revenues created in the production in reserve.