The Interior Department is expected this week to unveil its final five-year plan for offshore oil and natural gas lease sales and both industry and environmental sources believe proposed Arctic sales are more likely to be eliminated due to Republican Donald Trump’s electoral victory. The plan, with the proposed sales in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas cut out, could put the incoming Trump administration in the precarious position of scrapping the plan but halting all offshore oil and gas sales for the bulk of his four-year term or going forward with a limited number of sales, potentially only in the Gulf of Mexico. Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is expected to unveil the final plan for offshore lease sales between 2017 and 2022 as early as Wednesday, according to sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. BOEM unveiled the proposed plan in March and while a planned […]