The Bureau of Land Management is also only accepting public comment on the project for 15 days, far fewer than the usual 30 to 60.
The Trump administration is expediting the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System’s environmental review, which would reauthorize the project and guarantee 30 more years of oil production in Alaska. The Bureau of Land Management also shortened the public comment period for review of the project, which is usually 30 to 60 days, to 15.
The BLM’s last approval process for the pipeline required a full environmental impact statement that evaluated oil spill risks and potential damages to permafrost. For the upcoming review, the BLM will only prepare an environmental assessment, a less-comprehensive review than an environmental impact statement.
“The expedited project would exacerbate climate change while benefitting two of the pipeline owners, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil, each of whom contributed $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund,” Lisa Sorg writes for Inside Climate News.
BLM was not scheduled to renew the project until 2034. PEER, a watchdog group that works with current and former federal, state, local and tribal employees, said critics believe the Trump administration “is seeking an early, quick renewal to preclude long overdue consideration of mounting economic and ecological concerns,” Inside Climate News reports.
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