By Dan Joling | January 27, 2018 10:02 am
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s all-Republican congressional delegation three weeks ago praised Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke after he announced nearly all federal waters off the state’s coast could be offered for oil and gas drilling.
But after further consideration, U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Rep. Don Young say they will support lease sales between 2019 and 2024 in just three areas: Cook Inlet, where petroleum platforms have extracted oil and natural gas for decades, and the Arctic waters of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
In a letter Friday to Zinke, the delegation requested that most Alaska waters from the state’s Panhandle to the Bering Strait be removed from the proposed five-year drilling plan.
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