“Everything has changed” for Alaska’s energy and natural resources production under the Trump administration, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says.
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order unlocking the “bounty of natural wealth” in Alaska, from oil and gas to minerals and even timber.
“Whatever Alaska has is now open for business,” Dunleavy told The Daily Signal at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., on Friday.
Trump’s actions have “rescued Alaska—rescued, I think, the country, and quite frankly, the world—from this social-engineering approach that was taking place,” the Alaska governor.
The Biden administration was “brutal” to Alaska, Dunleavy said, adding that “opportunity was stolen left and right through upwards of 66, 68 executive…