Oil Lease Sale in U.S. Beaufort Sea Delayed by Two Years to 2017
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The Obama administration pushed back by two years a sale of oil leases in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea to collect additional scientific information about the region, the Interior Department said.
The agency plans to auction rights in the Arctic spanning the U.S.-Canada border in 2017, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today on a conference call with reporters. A draft leasing plan for 2012-2017 released in November set the sale in 2015.