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Lisa Murkowski Asks Energy Nominee About Determining ‘Appropriate’ Off-Shore Development
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5/7/2025
During a Senate Energy Committee hearing last week, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) questioned Leslie Beyer, nominee to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Lands and Minerals Management, about off-shore development in Alaska.
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Smiling because I was given a statement from Senator Murkowski who was before
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this committee or on this committee in July 15th 1986 and apparently at that
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time my father introduced you Mr. Garish to the committee as you were being
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nominated to become the federal inspector for the Alaska natural gas
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transportation system so as my colleague has said there's a few from the Reagan
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days that not only understand things but understand things so well that they are
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they are back yet again so a little bit of committee history here so just want to
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acknowledge that Ms. Beyer I want to speak to you a couple questions here and I
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love your connections to Alaska it takes tough individuals to run the the mayor's
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marathon and just love the fact that you like to spend family time up there so
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you're familiar with Alaska the last time we had a Senate confirmed ASLM position
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was an Alaskan Joe Baylash he obviously got a lot of these issues that are before
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interior before BLM and you're going to be asked to pick up a lot in this space as
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you well know I know that you are familiar with the no more wilderness
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clause that was contained that is contained in an Elka I just need your your
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commitment to me and to the committee that you will ensure that BLM and other
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agencies under your purview abide by this no more clause and and even going a
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little bit beyond that whether or not you'd be willing to work with the
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delegation to evaluate what has happened in Alaska since passage of Anilka as a
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result of of BLM's oftentimes unilateral decisions to withdraw more and more land
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from public access so just a willingness to to work with the delegation on this
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absolutely ma'am given my personal affinity for the state it's one of the
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things that I am most looking forward to working on if I am confirmed and I look
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forward to spending time there and working with you on all those issues good we
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will invite you back often and speaking of of Alaska land conveyances as as you
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know we're dealing with the lifting of outdated public land orders long long
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overdue land conveyances that are owed under our Alaska Statehood Act as well as
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Native Claims Settlement Act we have to resolve submerged lands issues these are
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matters that require a great deal of detail time and resources but we've been a
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state now for for long enough and I think some of these promises that were
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made at statehood need to be completed we need your help to that and we just
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like your commitment to that absolutely ma'am if I'm lucky enough to be
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confirmed I look forward to working on that good good good and last question to
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you I know you're not in the building yet but the department has just recently
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announced a new five-year program for offshore development as well as what
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they're calling a new high arctic planning area and I get where the
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administration is coming from it's basically put everything on the table
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and then figure out how we might want to winnow some of this back actually where
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we want leasing to occur as you well know in Alaska there are places that we
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seek to develop aggressively responsibly and then there are areas that we don't so
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I would just ask your commitment again that you would work with the Alaska
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delegation we've got Alaskans that are here in the room as part of Alaska Day
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today but especially our North Slope leaders to determine where leasing is
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appropriate and perhaps not appropriate with it within the Alaska OCS
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absolutely I look forward to being briefed on the details of that and I will
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take a very close look at it very good appreciate that mr. Abbey I am going to
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give you an opportunity to share a little bit of your vision here you don't have
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much time but you have spent a lot of time thinking about many of these things
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you mentioned the the vision that you have for the critical minerals and and
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the specific outlook but is is is what we were able to accomplish when it came to
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lifting the oil export ban and again the strategy the implementation can can we do
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this with critical minerals can we do this with LNG exports is this something
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that in your new role you you think you can bring to the table looking at the
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objective analytical data that the EIA brings to bear but can we develop can we
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work towards developing better us strategic approaches to these very
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important issues thank you senator for the question in my view objectivity is a
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discipline is something that you can practice and in various capacities I have
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been an objective steward of data in other capacities I've been a policy I've had
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more of a policy role as if confirmed as administrator I would no longer be in a
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policymaking role but I I do believe that the crude oil export debate illustrates
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the importance of EIA there were a lot of think tanks and consulting firms that
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were writing reports about crude oil exports but all of them were using EIA
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data EIA data to borrow ranking member Heinrich's term once again this common set
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of facts and I think the EIA can absolutely play a critical role in helping
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anybody who is trying to develop any kind of energy policy to equip them with the
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information that they need it's a good answer thank you I appreciate it thank you Mr. Chairman I learned from the best
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thank you thank you Senator Murkowski yeah Ms. Byer I'd like to start with you if
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that's okay yeah we I'm sorry I forgot Senator Cortez Masto that was very bad
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you're up to bat thank you well as chairman I respect that your position so
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thank you
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