Mideast Crisis Ups Chance of Arctic Drilling

FOX ^ | 4/9/02

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Pushing a Senate energy bill that includes a controversial provision to increase U.S. reliance on domestic oil production, President Bush said Tuesday that recent events in the Middle East only bolster the argument for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

[goodnesswins]

"On Monday, the Interior Department produced an analysis that concluded that if oil development were limited to the northwestern one-third of the plain, there would be minimal impact on the calving activities of Porcupine caribou, one of the issues of most concern to environmentalists."

If I'm not mistaken, last time there was oil exploration, etc. in Alaska, the caribou population INCREASED!!!

[Windsong]

"caribou"

Maybe some good can come out of this mess after all. I say the more drilling in the Alaskan frontier, the better. To hell with the caribou. When it comes to American lives, better that we live as independents that to place an animal on par with a human.

[Congressman Billybob]

Your memory is largely correct. When the Alaska Pipeline was in the planning stages, the tree-huggers said it would decimate the caribou herds. The pipeline was deliberately built far enough above the ground (except at the pumping stations every mile or so), that the caribou (and all other creatures smaller than them) could easily walk underneath it.

The results? The caribou herds in Alaska are now larger than they were before the pipeline was built.

The opponents of exploration in 1% of ANWAR are using junk science, junk politics, and junk logic to push their cause. This is nothing new. The critical question is, who will be on the Conference Committee for the Senate when the differences between the House and Senate are ironed out.

I see on another thread that Li'l Tommy Daschle is "excercising leadership" again. What a putz. Let's hope Rep, Thune not only beats Sen. Johnson in South Dakota in the fall, but buried him 10 feet under. That's tell Li'l Tommy Daschle what his own people think of his "leadership."

Congressman Billybob

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[concerned about politics]

Let the price of gas go way up, and hit the bully pulpit. America will listen. People will understand that humans are an important species ,too, no matter what the Mother Earth cult says.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Your putz reference brings back a memory, with regard to the race, shouldn't we be referring them as Rat... Sen Johnson and Rep Thune?

[Salvation]

More US jobs. They want this in Alaska!

[goodnesswins]

Yep...knew my memory was correct - I worked on the Alaska Pipeline (well, with the company supplying most of the heavy equipment.) Have walked under those pipelines....the idiots who don't want us to drill have likely NOT ever been there, the the VAST wasteland (well, vast land, not wasted, if we drill.)