Journos LOSE IT Over Trump Admin Approving Oil Drilling in ANWR

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Journos LOSE IT Over Trump Admin Approving Oil Drilling in ANWR

Joseph Vazquez   |   August 18th, 2020 12:24 PM

U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is set to approve oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Liberals and journalists lost their minds.

The Wall Street Journal reported that “[t]he Trump administration approved 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.”  The Journal said that it would be “difficult to unwind the decision should Democrats recapture the White House in November.”  Perhaps that’s why Twitter users like NBC News’s Mary Murray called President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest move an “environmental atrocity” on Twitter.

According to The Journal’s summarization, Bernhardt said that “[a]pproving the program clears the way to auction oil leases ‘right around the end of the year.’” Also, The Journal noted that “[t]he decision caps more than 30 years of efforts by oil companies and Alaskan leaders to drill in the refuge.”

Woke Twitter erupted.

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N3L Capital Partners Co-founder Thomas Landstreet wrote in 2018 that “Drilling in the ANWR poses less risk to the environment than fracking. It would also be cheaper. Fracking was invented in response to drilling restrictions, as a way to produce oil from shale formations on private land, where government restrictions don’t apply.”

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2020/08/18/meltdown-journos-lose-it-over-trump-admin-approving-oil

This should have been done a very long time ago.