By undermining the university system, Governor Dunleavy and his cronies can profit from the exploitation of ANWR while reducing the environmental resistance.
"DEEP DIVE: TRUMP'S QUEST TO OPEN UP ANWR: POLITICO Magazine is out today with an investigation into the Trump administration's push to open up oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. According to interviews by Adam Federman with more than a dozen current and former employees at Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska, the speedy one-year environmental review process has come at a significant cost to the reliability and comprehensiveness of the overall environmental review."
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-energy/2019/07/26/one-on-one-with-cheryl-lafleur-462166