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NEWS ARCHIVE - AUGUST 2005
THE
LAST REFUGE
After a quarter-century battle between
environmentalists and oil interests, the
Republican-led Congress is poised to
approve a budget bill as soon as next
month that would open 2,300 square miles
of the refuge's coastal plain to oil
drilling.
Read
the Full San Francisco Chronicle Article
P.M.
VOWS TO FIGHT FOR ARCTIC REFUGE
The Canadian government won't sit aside and
just wait for the U.S. Congress to pass
legislation in September that will permit
drilling for oil in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge, according to Prime Minister
Paul Martin.
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the Full Article
ARCTIC
DRILLING IS WRONG WAY
Congress
should reject, once and for all, any notion of
drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
It's a short-sighted idea; drilling wouldn't
produce much oil but it could produce plenty of
environmental peril.
Read
the Full Poughkeepsie Journal Editorial
CQ TODAY
Two Dozen House
Republicans Oppose Arctic Refuge Drilling By Jonathan
Allen, CQ Staff Two dozen House Republicans, including
three committee chairmen, want provisions opening the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling left
out of a budget "reconciliation" package
that will be assembled in mid-September.
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the Full Article
Fight Over Alaska
Oil Drilling Continues
Conspicuous by its
absence in the sweeping energy bill that President
Bush has championed and will sign Monday is his top
energy priority: opening an Alaska wildlife refuge to
oil drilling. But the fight over the future of the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will flare anew in
Congress next month with drilling advocates saying
they have their best chance in more than two decades
of making it happen.
Read
the Full Associated Press Article
How
the thirst for oil imperils an ancient land
The
Gwitch'in people have
depended on the Porcupine caribou herd for 27,000
years. Now that way of life is in jeopardy.
Read
the Full Ottowa Citizen Article
Force
of Nature
In
"Where Mountains Are Nameless," fearless adventurer Jonathan Waterman makes a passionate, personal case for preserving the Arctic Wildlife Refuge -- and the polar bears and caribous that call it home.
Read
the Full Salon Article
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