Bound, Obama makes waves by mountain, becoming first president to go to

“In visiting the U.S. Arctic, President Obama is clearly demonstrating that the United States is an Arctic nation with a stake in the region’s future”, said Margaret Williams, Managing Director of U.S. Arctic Programs at the World Wildlife Fund. “This trip provides the President with the flawless opportunity to define his vision of how all nations should work in unison to manage and conserve our shared Arctic resources”.

The letter ran in the Anchorage Dispatch News and the Fairbanks Daily News on August 29 and 30, and follows a statewide ASRC advert television ad highlighting the key role that Arctic energy development plays in supporting native communities.

With melting glaciers and rising seas as his backdrop, President Barack Obama will go to Alaska this week to press for pressing worldwide motion to fight local weather change, whilst he rigorously calibrates his message in a state closely depending on oil.

Some critics of the deal have gone even further in linking Obama’s Iran deal to anti-Semitism, as 2016 GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson did while discussing the agreement in light of Iran’s threats to Israel.

Obama has increased his attention on the issue this year with executive actions and policy proposals. While the possibility of flooding from the additional water is feared, a boost to the region’s economy, along with the generation of trillions of dollars from oil and gas reserves, is also anticipated. “We don’t rubber-stamp permits”.

“The changes that we have been seeing over time seem to have accelerated”, Northwest Arctic Borough mayor and former Democratic state legislator Reggie Joule said on Thursday in Kotzebue.

“I share people´s concerns about offshore drilling”, he added. The influx of money and jobs has already strarted, with Google and Facebook taking advantage of the climate for the lower cooling costs in server farms for their web-based companies.

The goal of the GLACIER conference, according to the White House, is to boost awareness of how the effects of higher temperatures in the Arctic are affecting the rest of the world and what people can do in response.

When global warming melts the ice around the North Pole, trillions of barrels of oil and natural gas, along with shorter trade routes, await discovery. That scenario is extremely unlikely, not least because conventional oil is cheaper to produce than drilling beneath the remote and icy Arctic Ocean.

“That is all actual”, Obama stated in his weekly tackle launched Saturday.

“It’s not like there’s some shutoff point, some magic flowthrough”, the University of Alaska’s Knapp said. In his address, the President spoke to ways in which we can address these challenges, including the transition away from fossil fuels to more renewable energy sources like wind and solar, an effort in which America is already leading. “If another country threatened to wipe out an American town, we’d do everything in our power to protect ourselves”. “As long as that’s the case, I believe we should rely more on domestic production than on foreign imports, and we should demand the highest safety standards in the industry”.

An official White House release states President Obama will announce the federal government is officially returning Mount McKinley to it’s Koyukon Athabascan name of Denali.

In April this year, the Obama administration proposed a plan to declare most of the ANWR as “wilderness” which would ban oil extraction from the land.