Top Trump officials visit prolific Alaska oil field amid push to expand drilling

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 9:14 PM EDT, June 2, 2025


DEADHORSE, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to double the amount of oil coursing through Alaska’s vast pipeline system and build a massive natural gas project as its “big, beautiful twin,” a top administration official said Monday while touring a prolific oil field near the Arctic Ocean.

The remarks by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright came as he and two other Trump Cabinet members — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin — visited Prudhoe Bay as part of a multiday trip aimed at highlighting Trump’s push to expand oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in the state that drew criticism from environmentalists.

During the trip, Burgum’s agency announced plans to repeal Biden-era restrictions on future leasing and industrial development in portions of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that are designated as special for their wildlife, subsistence or other values.

The petroleum reserve is west of Prudhoe Bay and Deadhorse, the industrial encampment near the starting point of the trans-Alaska pipeline system. The pipeline, which runs for 800 miles (nearly 1,300 kilometers), has been Alaska’s economic lifeline for nearly 50 years.

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[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

1. I can't wait until TACO walks through the gates of a "big beautiful prison,"

followed by a quick trip to "big beautiful hell," where he'll be greeted by his new BFF, Satan.

[hatrack]

2. Uh-huh, Big Oil will spend $10-20 billion to develop the site, with oil prices down 25% YOY . . .

. . . and with recession hovering in the wings, just because Orange Anus and his hackolytes demand it.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. +infinity

And add to that OPEC+ beginning to phase in production increases (although I heard yesterday, not by as much as originally threatened).

[walkingman]

4. There no place on earth that these cancer spewing corporations

will leave alone. Next thing we know there will be oil fields in our national parks.
Here in the Austin area we smell the stench of the oil patch in Luling, Tx. It is called "The Luling effect" and it is over 50 miles away.

[Bayard]

5. Oil fields and logging,

With a king-sized picture of trump hanging off a redwood tree.

Nothing is sacred to these people.