Biden administration has taken action against Alaska nearly 3 times more than against Iran



According to Governor Mike Dunleavy (R-Alaska), the Biden administration is sanctioning his state of Alaska more than Iran.

While Glenn Beck calls it “quite a statement to make,” Dunleavy has the facts to back it up.

There have been "55 actions since the Biden administration came into office against one of its own states,” Dunleavy tells Glenn, noting that Alaska is not just any state but one that produces significant resources.

In comparison, the administration has taken only 19 actions against Iran.

In 2017 the Jobs Acts was signed into law by President Trump, requiring lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Biden administration then unilaterally canceled them, which Dunleavy calls “a violation of law.”

“That’s huge because that has one of the last remaining large oil and gas fines, probably in North America, that was taken off the list. Offshore oil leases in the Arctic, off the list,” Dunleavy says.

“This is just a handful of incidents of what we call sanctions against Alaska that make it difficult for us to produce oil.”

Under the Clinton administration, Southeast Alaska timber mills were dismantled. When President Trump came into office, he began to restore the state as a working force for timber, mining, and recreation.

However, when Biden took over, the government once again closed it down.

“It’s just been a series each year of different actions, different executive orders that are targeted against Alaska,” the governor tells Glenn before explaining that the resources are the entire reason Alaska exists as a state.

This began in 1959, when Alaska was required to collectivize all of its resources under the government in order to become a state. The reason was that the population was too small for people to pay for it through things like an income tax.

“That’s the cruel irony of this whole thing. We were allowed to come in as a state as long as we developed our resources, and now we’re being told we can’t develop our resources, which means our viability as a state is in question,” Dunleavy explains.

Glenn is taking this as a warning.

“If they can do this to Alaska, they’ll do it to a lot of our states,” he says.


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Biden admin dumps Alaska oil drilling project started under Trump that was slated to create thousands of jobs



The Biden administration this week formally abandoned a major oil and gas drilling project in northern Alaska that would have bolstered America's energy independence and resulted in the creation of thousands of jobs.

The Department of the Interior declined on Monday to file an appeal of a federal district court decision that blocked the project, known as the Willow Master Development Plan, in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, the Daily Caller reported.

The project, which was being developed by the Texas-based oil and gas firm ConocoPhillips, was slated to produce as much as 160,000 barrels of oil per day to the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, according to Must Read Alaska. The increase would have provided a 32% boost to the throughput of the pipeline, which is currently averaging less than 500,000 barrels per day.

Project summary documents show the project would have "generate[d] hundreds of direct jobs and thousands of construction jobs, and produce[d] substantial revenue for the federal government, State of Alaska, North Slope Borough, and communities in the NPR-A."

The multibillion-dollar project was greenlit by the Bureau of Land Management under the Trump administration in 2020. But after President Joe Biden's election victory, environmentalist groups sued to stop the project.

In August, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason voided the project's approval, citing a failure by the bureau to adequately review the project's greenhouse gas emissions, which she concluded would ultimately harm wildlife.

Interestingly, the Biden administration initially voiced support for the project and appeared ready to move forward with it despite the environmental concerns. But ultimately, the deadline for appealing Judge Gleason's ruling came and went on Monday without an appeal, effectively killing the project.

Jeremy Lieb, an attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said in a statement that he is pleased with the Biden administration's change of course.

"We are glad to see that President Biden is taking positive steps in his commitment toward a cleaner energy future. However we are facing a dire climate emergency, and we hope that he continues to align Western Arctic management with climate imperatives and protect it from all new oil and gas activity," Lieb said.

"I think the administration is realizing that defending Willow is utterly at odds with the president's promises of climate action. To protect our planet's future, Biden needs to halt this huge oil project for good and move quickly to phase out drilling in our increasingly vulnerable Arctic," added Kristen Monsell, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, another plaintiff in the suit.

The Willow project had been backed by the entire congressional delegation from Alaska — which includes Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Republican Rep. Don Young.