I was told that once you build a road, it is forever changed.
It is unfortunate that we have political science that is here to just make things harder for us, is how we see it in Kaktovik.
Our homelands are not polluted. Our people are not polluted. Our animals are not polluted.
Until an alternative is put forth, we support responsible resource development.
Well, what we have seen from scientific data is they have gone up.
Who in America would have to have an Act of Congress to develop their own lands? Nowhere else in the world.
California currently relies on foreign resources, mostly from Saudi Arabia, to meet over half its rising demand for oil.
My colleagues want to lock up energy development in the 1002 region and further our reliance on foreign oil imports.
The previous administration took any action they could to lock up oil and gas development on the North Slope.
It is absolutely incredible. And I have been there, to the North Slope.
You have divided two tribes, two tribes. This isn't the people that live there.