Dec 20, 2016 ... “There is no authority for subsequent presidents to un-withdraw. ... Canada is  acting to put an indefinite stop to activity in its waters as well,” the aide said. ...  President Obama banned oil drilling in large areas of the Atlantic and Arctic  oceans, using a law called the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. (The ...
Dec 21, 2016 ... U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday banned new oil and gas drilling in  federal waters in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, in a push to leave his stamp on  .... “No president has ever tried to undo a permanent withdrawal of an ocean area  from leasing eligibility,” said Niel Lawrence, Alaska director and ...
Dec 19, 2016 ... President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling  rights in most of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could  indefinitely restrict oil production there, according to people familiar with the  decision. Obama will invoke a provision in a 1953 law that gives him wide ...
The question of whether to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR) has been an ongoing political controversy in the United States since  1977. As of 2017, Republicans have attempted to allow drilling in ANWR almost  50 times, but thus far without success. ANWR comprises 19,000,000 acres ( 77,000 km2) of ...
Feb 5, 2015 ... President Barack Obama has effectively banned oil exploration, at least for the  time being, on some 22 million acres of federal land and waters in Alaska: 12  million acres on land in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and 10  million acres offshore in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."