After winning most Arctic refuge bids, an Alaska agency prepares to assume oil leases
Meanwhile, some Alaska Native and environmental groups urged AIDEA to abandon the leases.
The Alaska state agency that submitted most of the bids in a lightly attended auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge expects to have those leases in hand by next week, the organization’s executive director said on Wednesday.
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