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Latest Obama executive order: 12 million acres of ANWR now off limits
canadafreepress.com ^ | 1/27/2015 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 01/27/2015 8:24:08 AM PST by rktman

President Obama announced Sunday that he’ll use his executive authority to designate 12 million acres in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness, walling it off from resource development. This abrogates a 1980 deal in which Congress specifically set aside some of this acreage for future oil and gas exploration. It’s also a slap at the new Republican Congress, where Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been corralling bipartisan support for more Arctic drilling.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: ak; alaska; anwr; asshats; drilling; ecowackos; keystonexl; landgrab; obamaexecutiveorder; opec; russia
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To: aquila48

See post 42. I was discussing Keystone XL.

The article is about ANWR.

Your version of “reality” is just that—your version.

My view is not a straw man argument, nor is it fallacious.

A very healthy majority of Americans have consistently supported Keystone XL, even Democrat supporting unions.

If there ever was a battle that we could and should win, it is this one.

You are defeated before you start.

If so, why bother being on a website that values freedom?

If the truth is nothing can be changed, and nothing will ever change, hang it up now.


61 posted on 01/27/2015 7:54:54 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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