More than 18 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska would be opened to oil and gas leasing and development under a proposal the Bureau of Land Management published Thursday.
A final environmental review calls for the bureau to proceed with a new option that would open the maximum possible area—18.6 million acres, or 82%—of the Indiana-sized reserve to fossil fuels development.
A November draft of the plan considered a range of options, none of which were chosen as the proposed plan in the final version issued Thursday. Those options included opening about 50%, or 11.4 million acres, of the ...
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