Arctic Refuge Feeling the Heat As Lawmakers Press Their Cases. / Richard Simon and Elizabeth Shogren.
by Simon, Richard; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 25Environment. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2001ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Caribou | Environmental protection | Oil well drilling | Petroleum -- Prospecting | Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "[President George W.] Bush has advocated oil and gas exploration on 1.5 million acres of the 19.6-million-acre refuge in the northeast corner of Alaska as a way to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil....Foes say drilling could spoil one of the nation's most precious wild areas, home to caribou, polar bears and more than 130 bird species. They say the drilling would do nothing to help solve the California power crisis because only 1% of the state's electricity is produced by oil." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) The authors highlight the oil debate and report that the House is seeking support from conservative senators of oil-producing states, including Alaska Sen. Frank H. Murkowski.
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Originally Published: Arctic Refuge Feeling the Heat As Lawmakers Press Their Cases, March 31, 2001; pp. A20-A21.
"[President George W.] Bush has advocated oil and gas exploration on 1.5 million acres of the 19.6-million-acre refuge in the northeast corner of Alaska as a way to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil....Foes say drilling could spoil one of the nation's most precious wild areas, home to caribou, polar bears and more than 130 bird species. They say the drilling would do nothing to help solve the California power crisis because only 1% of the state's electricity is produced by oil." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) The authors highlight the oil debate and report that the House is seeking support from conservative senators of oil-producing states, including Alaska Sen. Frank H. Murkowski.
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