The Biden administration has released its vision for U.S. strategy in the Arctic in a new document that is intended to guide federal policy there for the next 10 years.
The Biden administration’s strategy includes investing in tracking capabilities to monitor threats and activity in the region. The document outlines regular Arctic military trainings and exercises, as well as a plan to expand the Coast Guard icebreaker fleet and support a deep-water draft harbor in Nome.
The strategy acknowledges that rising temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic could spur new economic opportunity by opening up shipping routes and shifting fish migration patterns. The document states that federal agencies will support sustainable development in Alaska renewable energy, critical minerals production, tourism and research. The strategy also includes investing in Alaskan infrastructure like broadband, ports, and airfields.
That disappointed Alaska Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan. Sullivan said in a statement that the strategy’s “excessive focus on climate change” sends a “troubling message” about resource development in the region. “This strategy very clearly falls short when it comes to our Arctic resources,” Murkowski said in a statement. “It gives very little attention to the opportunity and necessity of domestic production of the vast resources in our Arctic.”for the Arctic in 2013, and since then, all five branches of the military have released similar documents.
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