License to drill? How a Trump-linked Texas oil company is elbowing its way into Greenland

Greenland Energy says billions of barrels of crude could lie beneath territory and claims it has permission to bring drilling kit ashore – a claim denied by Nuuk…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/09/licence-to-drill-trump-linked-texas-oil-company-elbowing-into-greenland

 

Oil Companies Withhold Millions in Royalties From ND Mineral Owners — ProPublica

Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action...

https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions 

 

Alito’s Wife Leased Land to an Oil and Gas Firm While Justice Fought EPA

"There need not be a specific case involving the drilling rights associated with a specific plot of land for Alito to understand what outcomes in environmental cases would buttress his family's net wealth," Jeff Hauser, founder and director of the Revolving Door Project, told The Intercept. "Alito does not have to come across like a drunken Paul Thomas Anderson character gleefully confessing to drinking our collective milkshakes in order to be a real life, run-of-the-mill political villain."

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/26/samuel-alito-oil-gas-supreme-court-environment/

Trump's sale of Arctic refuge drilling rights earns just a fraction of GOP prediction | TheHill

... "The Trump administration railroaded this lease sale through amid a global pandemic and economic recession, and absent any real evidence that pursuing Arctic Refuge oil would provide any significant federal returns. Not surprisingly, today's sale generated significantly less federal revenue than the $1 billion promised by drilling proponents, resulting in a fire sale of some of the most valuable and ecologically significant wilderness remaining in North America," a coalition of major environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Earthjustice said in a release.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/532983-trumps-sale-of-arctic-refuge-drilling-rights-earns-just-a-fraction