On October 23, the Trump Administration’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) presented a permit application to do seismic testing across 450,000 acres of federal public land on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, as well as 92,000 additional acres inside the Refuge that are owned by Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation. This latest bid to destroy part of the irreplaceable Arctic Refuge must be stopped.
The idea of a project of this scale in one of the last intact undeveloped ecosystems in North America is outrageous enough, but it gets worse. Under the Trump administration's new rules, BLM fast-tracked this permit application, allowing only 14 days for the public and experts to review the plan in detail and provide comments.
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