Obama Closes 50 Percent of the Naval Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

Institute for Energy Research via Canada Free Press 10/24/2012

In 1923, President Warren Harding established the 23 million acre Naval Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) for the U.S. Navy at a time when it was converting its coal-fired ships to run on petroleum. In 1976, this Indiana-sized area was turned over to the Department of Interior and […]

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