This Week at Interior February 7, 2025
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- This Week: Former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum is sworn in as the 55th Secretary of the Interior, and welcomed aboard at the Stewart Lee Udall Building by an enthusiastic gathering of Interior employees; the new Secretary stressed the vital importance of Interior’s energy portfolio and the Department’s efforts to make America Energy Dominant; Secretary Burgum got right to work, signing several Secretary’s Orders to address the national energy emergency, unleash American energy, deliver emergency price relief for American families, and tap the State of Alaska’s abundant and largely untapped supply of natural resources. Make sure you follow us on Facebook, Instagram, UA-cam and X.
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actually, Alaska is more open for development already than any other State. More than the size of California was deeded to the State, and almost half of that millions of acres to Alaska Native Corporations. But the agreement was, for these gifts of the American people, to preserve for future generations another third of the State, so we do not act unthinkingly as we did on other public lands. The famous development plans that are halted, are halted because they are bad for the people living there, and do not follow the promise of protecting the nationally significant preservation lands. Most notorious is the untested, poorly designed route -- the Ambler industrial mining road -- to develop copper (trace amounts of cobalt) in the headwaters of the Kobuk River so many Native people depend on for daily food. It would cross 3,000 rivers and streams, with no engineering showing that subsistence needs and rivers would not be destroyed, and maintenance could not be paid for. The environmental disaster would be left for tax payers to clean up, and copper is available in more accessible and less sensitive places in many places in the lower 48. Don't just "develop" without keeping the promise of fair balance between development and preservation.
Those bureaucrats look pretty glum ; )
It's Stewart Lee Udall, not "Steward" Udall, this was mis-labeled in the press release as well.
My hope and prayer is for National Native American Boarding School Healing and Coalition to launch forward with healing circles, language and culture revitalization and long-life living skills towards inner peace and prosperity. Ahxe'hee and blessing!
Haaland will be hard act to follow so best wishes for more innovation from Interior👏
We have plenty of oil and gas - and don’t need to open up federal land for more destruction. Interior is supposed to preserve our natural resources, not use them up as fast as possible. While the new director might seem like a reasonable person, I’m afraid he has to adhere to an abhorrent agenda. Good luck!
Woof
Down with the fruit flags, and everything that came along with them.