Companies decline to drill in Alaska wildlife refuge
Source: The Hill
01/08/25 11:28 AM ET
No oil or gas company sought to drill in a contentious wildlife refuge in Alaska, the Interior Department announced Wednesday. As required by a 2017 law, the Biden administration offered the private sector the chance to drill on tracts in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. However, it said Wednesday that no company submitted a bid to do so. The deadline to submit bids to drill was Monday.
“The lack of interest from oil companies in development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reflects what we and they have known all along — there are some places too special and sacred to put at risk with oil and gas drilling,” Laura Daniel-Davis, acting deputy secretary of the Interior Department, said in a written statement. Whether to allow drilling in the refuge has been a source of partisan conflict for many years.
Republicans, who generally support drilling there, have argued it’s an opportunity to access more oil.
Democrats, who have generally opposed it, have pointed to unique wildlife that can be found there including grizzly bears, polar bears, gray wolves, caribou and more than 200 species of birds. In addition, the area contains land considered sacred by the Gwich’in people.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5074074-alaska-wildlife-refuge-interior-department-drilling/
Link to Department of Interior PRESS RELEASE - Arctic Refuge Lease Sale Yields No Interest
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LOL! As if they care 
They just don't want to risk spending the money on getting the infrastructure to drill in place, only to have the policy reversed again some time down the road.
The idea that these oil companies give a single fuck about anything other than profits is absurd.
