President Trump Opens Up America’s Treasure Chest With Alaska Resource Executive Order – RedState– redstate.com
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What a difference a day makes.
Democrats have, for years, treated Alaska like a gigantic national park. In the Senate hearings for Energy Secretary nominee Chris Wright, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) found an acorn when she noted that the Department of the Interior has, in recent years, acted like “Alaska’s landlord.”
With the stroke of a pen, on Monday evening, amid a flurry of executive orders signed, President Donald Trump (I never will get tired of writing that) changed all that with an EO titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential.”
Section 1. Background. The State of Alaska holds an abundant and largely untapped supply of natural resources including, among others, energy, mineral, timber, and seafood. Unlocking this bounty of natural wealth will raise the prosperity of our citizens while helping to enhance our Nation’s economic and national security for generations to come. By developing these resources to the fullest extent possible, we can help deliver price relief for Americans, create high-quality jobs for our citizens, ameliorate our trade imbalances, augment the Nation’s exercise of global energy dominance, and guard against foreign powers weaponizing energy supplies in theaters of geopolitical conflict.
