Obama Administration Removes Arctic Ocean from Offshore Drilling Plan - Oceana

Victory | November 18, 2016

Obama Administration Removes Arctic Ocean from Offshore Drilling Plan

The Obama administration protected the Arctic Ocean from offshore drilling. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management removed the Beaufort and Chukchi seas from the newly released final 2017-2022 five-year program for oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf. This announcement follows a similar decision in March where BOEM removed the Atlantic Ocean from the five-year program following widespread opposition along the East Coast. Oceana has been campaigning for 10 years to stop the expansion of oil and gas into the U.S. Arctic.