It’s the president’s fault that another major energy company has folded up its tent and left Alaska behind, the chair of the Senate energy committee said. Norwegian energy company Statoil announced it was abandoning its leases in the Chukchi Sea and closing its offices in Anchorage, Alaska. Statoil’s decision followed a similar move by Royal Dutch Shell. “I am very concerned that, for the second time in as many months, a major company has decided to walk away from Alaska because of the uncertainty surrounding our federal government’s support for Arctic development,” U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski , R-Alaska, chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural […]