This was the correct action to take as the country moves to electric vehicles.

September 28, 2015

By Wendy Koch

In this photo (click here) provided by the United States Coast Guard, a Coast Guard helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak conducts the 13th hoist of 18 crewmen from the mobile drilling unit Kulluk on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, 80 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska.

...Shell, one of the world’s largest oil companies (click here), cited “disappointing” results from the well it drilled off the coast of Alaska as well as the high costs of such exploration and the challenges of seeking future U.S. permits.

So, after spending approximately $7 billion, it’s giving up on the project. It won’t seek a permit next year, and its efforts to shed related 2017 financial commitments suggest its departure may be permanent. Its news coincided with the launch of the Energy Transitions Commission, a global group including Shell that aims to address both energy poverty and climate change....

2015 was a precipitates year of decisions by Shell as their icebreaker was severely damaged in the Arctic (click here). This is the Arctic OCEAN. It is the top of the world. It is a hostile environment. There is no safety margin there. Just because the Gulf of Mexico can be drilled between hurricanes, doesn't mean it can be accomplished in the Arctic Ocean.

7 December 2022
By Ayesha Tandon and Roz Pidcock.

...The consensus (click here) is clear – as Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears are finding it harder to hunt, mate and breed. While polar bears have shown some ability to adapt to changes in their surroundings – for example, by foraging for food on land, or swimming more to hunt for prey – scientists project that as sea ice diminishes, polar bears will find it harder to survive and populations will decline....

...temperatures in the Arctic are rising nearly four times as fast as the global average, and Arctic sea ice extent has declined since 1979 for every month of the year....

January 6, 2025

A polar bear (click here) feeds on the jaws of a bowhead whale harvested by natives along the coast of ANWR.

Today, President Biden took action (click here) to protect the entire U.S. East coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, and additional portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska from future oil and natural gas leasing. In protecting more than 625 million acres of the U.S. ocean from offshore drilling, President Biden has determined that the environmental and economic risks and harms that would result from drilling in these areas outweigh their limited fossil fuel resource potential. With these withdrawals, President Biden has now conserved over 670 million acres of America’s lands and waters, more than any other president in history....

This is sincerely a closed issue. To engage is a dialogue or a lawsuit as Alaska is conducting about drilling ANWR is completely mute and nothing more than inflammatory propaganda.

January 8, 2025

By Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk

No oil or gas company sought to drill (click here) in a contentious wildlife refuge in Alaska, the Interior Department announced Wednesday.

As required by a 2017 law, the Biden administration offered the private sector the chance to drill on tracts in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

However, it said Wednesday that no company submitted a bid to do so. The deadline to submit bids to drill was Monday.

“The lack of interest from oil companies in development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reflects what we and they have known all along — there are some places too special and sacred to put at risk with oil and gas drilling,” Laura Daniel-Davis, acting deputy secretary of the Interior Department, said in a statement....