02/10/2015
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"It was principally, we thought it was based on very limited data, not enough seismic, not enough wells."
"you can responsibly develop the resources in an Arctic environment and protect the environment."
"one of the things that we are most concerned about is in the integrated plan, how that essentially took half of the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska... off the table for leasing."
"we think that the latest assessment that USGS did, and we worked very closely, my agency in particular, very closely with USGS."