Two years after an Arctic drilling barge went dangerously adrift in Alaskan waters, the Obama administration moved Friday to impose stringent safety standards on future offshore oil and gas exploration along the state’s northern coastline.
The Interior Department unveiled proposed rules that officials said would help guard against environment damage while allowing controlled access to off-shore fields estimated to contain billions of barrels of oil as well as immense reserves of natural gas.
The rules, if given final approval, would require energy companies to clear a number of Arctic-specific safety hurdles before obtaining approval to drill in northern Alaska’s Beaufort and Chukchi seas. The White House last month unveiled plans to allow off-shore oil and gas leasing in both waterways, in what officials called an attempt to strike a balance between…
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