The Department of the Interior (DOI) is opening up roughly 2.1 million acres of public land in Alaska for major energy projects, according to a Feb. 20 statement.
The land is in Alaska’s Dalton Utility Corridor, which includes the Alaska Liquid Natural Gas line, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and the Ambler Road project, which aims to develop a 211-mile mining road in the region.
The 1959 Alaska Statehood Act authorized the transfer of approximately 105 million acres of federal land to Alaska, out of which the state still has not received roughly 5.2 million acres from the federal government. The latest action from the DOI “clears the way” for Alaska to obtain part of the remaining land, the department said….
Interior Department Opens Up 2.1 Million Acres in Alaska for Energy Projects
