https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1295337904496160769

Article is paywalled but the opening paragraph is good enough, the auction for the leases begins at at the end of the year

The Trump administration plans to approve an oil leasing program for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Monday, opening up the pristine 19-million-acre wilderness to drilling for the first time and making it difficult to unwind the decision should Democrats recapture the White House in November.

edit: wapo article not paywalled

  • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The sheer inertia of capitalism and its love of entrenched energy interests will kill us all, in the most boring way possible.

    Can't wait to be in the path of a fire hurricane, and still listening to people argue over what should be done with the remaining two coal miners.

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      They don't care about the miners, just about the mining companies.