NEWS ARCHIVE - MARCH 2005

Leaking on North Slope: Accident reveals threat to Arctic refuge

As the Bush administration nears its cherished goal of drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an industrial spill in a North Slope oil field last week offers a glimpse of what's in store for the wilderness home of caribou, snow geese and grizzlies.

Read the Editorial in the Eugene Register-Guard

Apprehension in Alaska

Congress' vote to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling has one local village worried about the impact on its traditional way of life.

Read the Article on Salon.com

Water, Crude Leak on Slope: Workers Clean Up 111,300 Gallon Spill

As many as 80 workers were hustling Monday to clean up oily water in
what ranks as one of the largest industrial spills ever seen in the
North Slope oil fields. 

Read the Article in the Anchorage Daily News

Both Sides Prepare for More Conflict Over Arctic Oil Drilling

With the federal government closer than ever to letting petroleum
companies have their way with a currently protected Alaskan Wilderness
area, lobbyists and activists are pushing back hard to protect the
refuge.

Read the Article in the News Standard

Will No Site Be Off-Limits? If Arctic Refuge is Drilled, Other National Treasures are Likely Next

Last Wednesday, 51 U.S. senators started the clock ticking for the
devastation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But they also
started the clock ticking for every other special place that oil and gas
interests want for their own exclusive benefit - the California, Florida
and Atlantic coasts, the Rocky Mountain Front, the Great Lakes, Otero
Mesa, the list goes on.

Read the Letter to the Editor in USA Today

Prime Minister to Discuss Displeasure Over ANWR With Bush 

Prime Minister Paul Martin will discuss Canada's opposition to drilling
for oil in an Alaskan refuge during talks with U.S. President George W.
Bush this week.

Read The Globe and Mail Article

Future of Refuge Drilling Still Uncertain

Following the Senate's vote last week allowing drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge, analysts and oil company officials are still
discussing questions about whether oil development in the area would be
profitable and environmentally responsible.

Read the Greenwire Article

Editorial: A Costly Oil Fix 

A Senate majority would rather defile the nation's last great wilderness
with oil rigs than require car and truck makers to get more mileage out
of a gallon of gas. That's the real choice in the debate under way over
opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. 

Read the Baltimore Sun Editorial

Editorial: Assault on Arctic Refuge for a Minimal Amount of Oil Shows Shortsighted Logic at its Worst 

Only a House-Senate conference stands in the way of an unwarranted
assault on a precious wildlife refuge in the pursuit of a marginal
amount of oil. 

Read the Asheville Citizen Times Editorial

Editorial: "Thanks A Lot, Senator Martinez"

One of many editorials by Floridians outraged by their Senator's
pro-drilling vote. Senator Martinez's claims of only casting his vote
after obtaining assurances from Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton
that Florida's coasts would remain untouched through 2012, ring hollow
to constituents who remember that this moratorium had already been put
in place by President Clinton in 1998.

Read the St. Petersburg Times Editorial

Senate OKs oil drilling in Alaska's ANWR

With a hard-fought Senate vote yesterday clearing the way, supporters of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge said survey teams could arrive on the harsh landscape within a year and leases for tapping its significant deposits of oil and natural gas could be sold as soon as 2007.

Read the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Article

Senate Votes for Drilling in Arctic Refuge

The Senate voted Wednesday to open part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, marking a turning point in one of the most contentious environmental issues in the country. Both proponents and critics of the drilling saw the action as opening the door to other areas currently off limits to energy exploration, including areas off California's coast.

Read the Los Angeles Times Article

Senate Votes to Open Alaskan Oil Drilling

Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for President Bush 

Read the Associated Press Story

Oil Drilling Would Savage Arctic Refuge Life

When Hawaii's senators vote on the budget in the next week, I hope they will think about my home in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

I live in the refuge year round in the village of Kaktovik, just like my husband's ancestors in the Inupiaq tribe have done for hundreds of years. My family and my ancestors have relied on the bowhead whales that swim just offshore for food, and depend on a pristine environment for our culture. I want to leave this environment to my children and every generation that follows; I want to make sure their food supply is protected, and that they grow up with the opportunity to live in one of the last places in the world untouched by industrialization.

Read the Honolulu Advertiser Opinion / Editorial

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