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NEWS ARCHIVE - OCTOBER
2005
Underhanded route to Alaska
oil
Until now, attempts
by the oil industry and its congressional patrons to
open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil
drilling have been thwarted either by timely
presidential veto or by filibuster.
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the Editorial
Kill
latest raid on Arctic
Opening
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling for
oil fails to address the monumental energy problems
confronting this nation. They range from global
warming to skyrocketing energy costs and to
America's growing dependence on foreign oil. Yet
Congress, prodded by the Bush administration, keeps
slogging ahead with plans to allow drilling into the
heart of one of the world's last pristine wild
places.
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the Editorial
ARCTIC WILDLIFE REFUGE
NEXT VICTIM OF KATRINA? It
will take 10 years before a drop of oil from the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reaches the gas pump -
and another 10 years after that before the drilling is
at peak production. Only then - 20 years down the road
- will Americans save a penny per gallon.
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the Editorial
ARCTIC OIL ISN'T WORTH THE COST To
save that penny per gallon, would you be willing to
compromise your hunting and wildlife watching
opportunities? To save a cent a gallon -- not now, but
by 2025 -- would you be willing to compromise one of
the last truly wild places on Earth, a web of life
that includes free-ranging caribou, denning polar
bears and the nesting grounds of waterfowl and other
birds?
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the Commentary
LAST STAND IN THE
ARCTIC
The Gwitchin tribe
digs in against U.S. plans to drill for oil in the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. At stake: The
dwindling herd of caribou and the tribe's way of
life.
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the Chicago Tribune Article
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