Oil and gas lease sale to proceed
From Times Wire Reports
The Interior Department said in Juneau that it is moving forward with an oil and gas lease sale covering nearly 4 million acres in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve.
The decision includes a plan to set aside more than 600,000 acres of land considered environmentally sensitive.
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is just west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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