Arctic drilling plan in Alaska hits roadblock

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By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Plans for seismic surveys to help find oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have fizzled due to a lack of protection for polar bears, according to a brief statement Saturday from the Department of the Interior.

The Kaktovik Inupiat Corp (KIC), the Native-owned company that applied for permission to conduct the survey, failed to do the required work to identify polar bear dens in the region that would be surveyed, Interior spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said in an emailed statement.

The likely demise of the seismic plan is the latest in a series of setbacks that have deflated the decades-long ambition to convert the refuge into an oil-producing frontier.

Alaska's oil production has been waning since the late 1980s, when the state produced more than 2 million barrels of crude per day. Now its output is roughly 500 bpd.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/arctic-drilling-plan-alaska-hits-111356147.html

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1. What's the point for drilling in AWR?

Is there a supply problem? Nope, it's a demand problem and it's going to get worse.

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2. Good

Alternative energy is needing exposure n funding. Ya cannot deplete a source like..trees, fishing or natural energy without some renewable or alternative measures. The tech is there.. the education is not. Let’s go.