[Isara]

So why does the green movement fight drilling in ANWR so viciously while operations in Canada's oil-sand fields expand?

[Brilliant]

....as it should. Let the market decide.

[domenad]

Oh please. PLEEEEEEEASE. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. How much money would it take to get me to be the one to write the letter to the Saudis? Dear sheet heads: Your oil is no longer needed. We'll let you know if we need to import any sand.

P.S. Choke on it. Signed, Cindy Sheehan

[paul51]

Because our politicians can be bought

[Carry_Okie]

So why does the green movement fight drilling in ANWR so viciously while operations in Canada's oil-sand fields expand?

The financial backers of the green movemint find it a nifty way to export all those dollars we print and internationalize American assets with foreign FDI.

[Vaquero]

People who block our ability to secure our own resources in this time of war we find ourselves in are TRAITORS....and should be shot as such.

[Willie Green]

So why does the green movement fight drilling in ANWR so viciously while operations in Canada's oil-sand fields expand?

The useful idiots can be pretty effective when they have Big Oil helping keep the price propped up.

[Wonder Warthog]

"So why does the green movement fight drilling in ANWR so viciously while operations in Canada's oil-sand fields expand?"

Because they're really socialists and hypocrites.

[somniferum]

"Cutting our reliance on foreign sources and keeping gasoline prices at the pump at sane levels are desired conditions that could have been achieved had production at ANWR not been blocked in the 1990s."

Bears repeating everytime someone tries to pull the "But but it will take years to get the production online" mantra.

[RightWhale]

why does the green movement fight drilling in ANWR so viciously while operations in Canada's oil-sand fields expand

There are competing movements. One is the greenies, who are somewhat influential in the US and Europe. Another is the Global Civil Society, which is also organizationally ad hoc, but which has a far different goal even if the results would be the same. The greenies and the GCS happen to be fighting the same bogeymen sometimes: when it is environment and international corporations together, which it is in ANWR, they may inadvertently act together. In Canada the greenies lack resources, and the GCS would show up only if there were an international business conference such as Davos or other economic summit.

[NewJerseyJoe]

> The environmental lobby has thus far blocked tapping the oil reserves in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Meanwhile, Canada draws oil from a remote and frozen region and sells it in the U.S.

This brings up a question I've had for some time.... the tree-huggers oppose ANWR drilling/exploration because it will affect the caribou, polar bears, arctic foxes, etc., and because they think crude oil will be all over the place.

They protest the U.S. for merely thinking about the idea. However, none of them protest the Canadian government for actually DOING these things, in more-or-less the same area. The polar bears don't understand or recognize national boundaries, so these areas are really all one and the same to the wildlife. I wonder why the greenies aren't protesting Canada???? [/sarcasm]

Pretty apparent that they don't care about the caribou at all, huh? -- I guess it just proves that the greenies really are America-haters after all.