Disruptive Oil Surveys in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge Are Being Delayed Until Next Winter
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR ) in Alaska will be safe from oil and gas exploration for at least another winter . The Department of Interior is planning to startleasingthe refuge ’s 1.5 million - acre coastal knit stitch to oil and accelerator pedal interests this year . Seismic examination is supposed to give bidders an musical theme of the possible fossil fuel resource that rest underground . That examination was set tobegin this wintertime , but the cognitive process to approve permits for the one company to extract stake , SAExploration , got delayed due to legal requirements and thegovernment shutdown , reports KTOO Public Media ....