Alaska sues Interior Department over ANWR lease sale

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : But a modern seismic survey, with three-dimensional technology to better assess the refuge's oil potential, could potentially take place in the next four years under Trump, he said.
49% : The state argues in the complaint that the restrictions were designed to severely limit oil exploration and drilling in the refuge, a 19 million-acre area where the fight over oil and gas development has played out for decades.
49% : Kara Moriarty, president of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association trade group, said oil companies don't disclose whether they'll bid beforehand.
48% : Producing oil from the refuge, if a sufficient discovery is made, would take more than a decade in part because of environmental laws and the refuge's remoteness, said Mark Myers, a former director of the U.S. Geological Survey and an energy and natural resources consultant.
45% : Larry Persily, an oil and gas analyst and former Alaska deputy commissioner of revenue, said viable oil companies will likely not bid though AIDEA will surely try again, potentially along with speculators, he said.
41% : The construction of surface oil facilities is prohibited on well over half the available acres, aside from additional limitations on other acreage, the state says in the complaint.
36% : It's also politically sensitive, and the next administration after Trump could once again seek to limit development there, they say.
27% : Major companies won't be interested in bidding, given the chance that presidential politics will change after Trump leaves office in four years, putting costly plans at risk.

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