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

  • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Fucking fuck trump, I hope he dies before they do that shit.

    The Guardian's take mentions:

    The porcupine caribou herd is critically important to the indigenous Gwich’in people, many of whom make their homes on or near its migration route.