Robert Thompson

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Robert Thompson is an Inupiaq hunter who lives with his wife in Kaktovik, and runs trips in the refuge through the business he founded and owns, Kaktovik Arctic Adventures. He is a father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.

Congress must protect my ability to hunt in ANWR

We need to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and repeal the 2017 Tax Act provision that allows oil exploitation on the coastal plain.

By Robert Thompson●

October 14, 2021 at 3:42 pm

Those who would open ANWR do not speak for Kaktovik

A majority of Gwich'in people remain opposed to drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic refuge.

By Robert Thompson●

December 13, 2017 at 4:16 pm

ANWR: Hunting in wilderness, not an oil field

OPINION: Establishing more wilderness area in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would help further Inupiat values more than new oil exploration would.

By Robert Thompson●

February 18, 2015 at 5:50 pm

Push for offshore drilling disregards ocean, culture

The 9th Circuit Court recently declared the federal decision to allow drilling in the Beaufort Sea was illegal. I am a member of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands), a plaintiff in the case. I live in Kaktovik and I am Inupiaq.

By Robert Thompson●

December 17, 2008 at 9:58 pm