President Obama has announced a plan to further “sustain and manage” Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This plan would result in about 1.5 million acres of the area being off-limits to drilling.
Big news: President Obama just announced a comprehensive plan to protect Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge → http://t.co/TJHEX0d4K0
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) January 25, 2015
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski wonders why his administration will negotiate with Iran but not her state.
Murkowski: "I cannot understand why this administration is willing to negotiate with Iran, but not Alaska”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 25, 2015
What an awful thing for AK to wake up to on a Sunday: gut punches from this White House to our economy and future. http://t.co/50Kl4YntW9
— Sen. Lisa Murkowski (@lisamurkowski) January 25, 2015
WH locking away millions of Alaskan acres from responsible development ignores the promise made to us at statehood. http://t.co/50Kl4YntW9
— Sen. Lisa Murkowski (@lisamurkowski) January 25, 2015
And she isn’t the only one livid about this.
Obama declares war on Alaska with plans to restrict oil & gas activity in millions of acres onshore & offshore Alaska http://t.co/5TtSfNaLN2
— Robert Dillon (@RA_Dillon) January 25, 2015
More Proof Obama Is A Strategic Idiot..#tcot…Obama Moves to Put Much of Refuge Off Limits to Drilling http://t.co/BVklc7cX82 via @business
— Ike ???❌ (@IkeIsaacson2) January 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/chrispyosh/status/559413559864471552
https://twitter.com/SteveAustinWI/status/559416525480673280
Days after claiming credit for increased oil production, Obama moves to limit it http://t.co/XcjLuwyRNn #Mo #tcot #sioa #muslim
— Pulp Ark (@pulpark) January 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/ADPEfferson/status/559381034811129856
“@guardian: Obama proposal to expand Alaska Arctic refuge angers Republicans over oil http://t.co/nEQdZxhZFk” Obama has no clue about Alaska
— joseph (@kobuck12) January 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/559386149593284609
Hooray for energy dependence!
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets from Sen. Lisa Murkowski.