In a Record Decision issued today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it will make land available for oil and gas leasing in the northeast portion of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska . At the same lease sale, the BLM also plans to offer land in the northwest portion of the. The lands made available for leasing under plans for NPR-A northeast and northwest could result in a much as 8.4 billion barrels of oil being developed. The lands could also provide trillions of cubic feet of natural gas for shipment to North American markets through gas pipelines currently in the planning stages. More

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Posted by markw, filed under Ecology. Date: July 17, 2008, 7:57 pm |

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