Alaska wildlife refuge drilling auction yields no bids, US says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Outgoing President Joe Biden's administration billed the outcome as proof the 19 million-acre refuge, home to species including polar bears and Porcupine caribou, should remain off-limits to fossil fuel development, even as President-elect Donald Trump seeks to encourage expanded drilling there.
42% : But oil companies have been hesitant to pursue the resources in part because of high costs of development, and public relations challenges around drilling in a wildlife sanctuary.
37% : "The lack of interest from oil companies in development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reflects what we and they have known all along - there are some places too special and sacred to put at risk with oil and gas drilling," said Acting Deputy Interior Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis.

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