Alaska’s senior U.S. senator urged the Interior Department to advance drilling in Alaska’s Cook Inlet and distribute wildfire prevention funding during a Senate hearing Wednesday.
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, right, and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, listen to community members in King Cove on April 20, 2022. Cook Inlet and distribute wildfire prevention funding during a Senate hearing Wednesday.proposed five-year offshore drilling plan
“I feel strongly when it comes to the five-year plan that the administration has to move and move quickly to finalize a plan that keeps at least the current acreage available for offshore leasing, including in my state,” Murkowski told Haaland in her opening remarks. Murkowski raised concerns that the administration would not follow through on the lease sale, especially after the“I think there was a lot of concern in May when the department canceled lease sale 258 citing lack of industry interest, and I can say with real certainty that was not the case,” Murkowski said.
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