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September 6, 2019

Ex-Interior Department Official Who Backed Alaska Drilling Joins Oil Company
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The Trump administration's former top official overseeing oil and gas
drilling on federal lands is joining an oil company that's seeking to
expand its operations in remote parts of northern Alaska near the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge. Joe Balash stepped down as the Interior
Department's assistant secretary for land and minerals management last
Friday, and this week he confirmed he's joining the Papua New
Guinea-based company Oil Search as a senior vice president. Danielle
Brian of the Project on Government Oversight told The Washington Post,
"It is hard to have confidence that decisions he was making while he was
working for the taxpayers were not impacted by his aspirations or hopes
to go work for a company that was materially affected by his work."


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