Drilling in the ANWR and President Bush
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Trump has talked about getting this done. It
was debated a lot in the first year of the GWB Administration, and I believe John McCain cast the vote defeating it by voting with the Democrats. Why didn't President Bush try to get this passed again once the Republicans had control of the Senate after the 2002 Midterms? Was this Bush not fighting the Democrats?
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UPDATE: New ANWR legislation passes by vote of 13-10
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KTUU ^
| 11/15/2017 | Leroy Polk
Following spirited discussion on both sides of the issue, a vote was called at the Energy and Natural Resources committee hearing, regarding new legislation proposed by Sen. Murkowski. By a vote of 13 in favor and 10 opposed, the legislation passed out of the committee just after 8 a.m.
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Obama Proposes to Make ANWR a Wilderness
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McClatchy ^
| Sunday, January 25, 2015 | Sean Cockerham
The White House is proposing to designate the oil-rich coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness permanently off limits to drilling. The
proposal sets up a showdown with Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who said the White House also intends to put much of the Arctic Ocean off limits to drilling in the new five-year offshore leasing plan to be released this week. SNIP Obama’s proposal to designate 12.3 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness would require Congressional approval, and there is no chance...
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Obama’s Executive Overreach at It Again: This Time, It’s ANWR
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Right Side News ^
| 1/30/15 | IER
On Sunday, President Obama announced that he will recommend to Congress that it should designate 12 million acres in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness.[i] When briefing the press about the plan, Presidential Advisor John Podesta said that regardless of the law and Congressional action, the administration was going to
manage these 12 million acres as if it had been designated as wilderness by Congress. That means that ANWR will be unavailable to resource development. In 1980, Congress set aside some of the acreage in ANWR (the “1002 area,” comprising the Coastal Plain) for future consideration of oil...
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Despite Rising Gas Prices, Emperor Joe To Cancel Oil, Gas Leases In ANWR: Report
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https://conservativefiringline.com ^
| June 2, 2021 | By Joe Newby -
In an apparent effort to make Americans suffer again, His Lying Demented Fraudulence, Emperor Joe Biden I, the potted plant installed as president after an election many still say was rife with fraud, is set to cancel oil and gas leases granted in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the last
weeks of the Trump administration, Breitbart reported. This comes as gas prices nationwide have gone up in the few months of the Biden Regime. According to Breitbart: The Post reported that “Interior would halt the leases on the grounds that Trump officials rushed the Jan. 6 auction and...
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Oil drilling in ANWR moves ahead as part of Senate tax bill
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Washington Times ^
| Saturday, December 2, 2017 | Ben Wolfgang
Republicans took a major step forward early Saturday in their decades-long fight to open a piece of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Included
as part of the sweeping tax reform bill passed by the Senate in a 51-to-49 vote is a highly controversial provision to allow energy exploration in a 1.5 million-acre swath of ANWR known as the “1002 area,” which lies along the coast. In total, ANWR spans more than 19 million acres. The drilling provision was seen as key to getting Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, on board with the tax bill.
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Latest Obama executive order: 12 million acres of ANWR now off limits
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canadafreepress.com ^
| 1/27/2015 | Dan Calabrese
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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MELTDOWN: Journos LOSE IT Over Trump Admin Approving Oil Drilling in ANWR
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NewsBusters ^
| 8/18/2020 | Joseph Vazquez
U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is set to approve oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Liberals and journalists lost their minds. The
Wall Street Journal reported that “[t]he Trump administration approved an oil leasing program for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Monday, opening up the pristine 19-million-acre wilderness to drilling for the first time.” The Journal said that it would be “difficult to unwind the decision should Democrats recapture the White House in November.” Perhaps that’s why Twitter users like NBC News’s Mary Murray called President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest move an “environmental atrocity” on Twitter.
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Latest Obama executive order: 12 million acres of ANWR now off limits
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Canada Free Press ^
| 01/27/15 | Dan Calabrese
Screw you, Alaska. Obama has simply engaged in yet another assault on this nation's economic vitality About a third of all the jobs in Alaska are connected to oil exploration and development. And
the ability to keep the oil industry vibrant in Alaska is very much dependent on the Trans-Alaska pipeline. So you’d think an administration that claims to be about keeping good jobs viable would have an interest in seeing to it that oil continues to flow freely through the pipeline - not only for the sake of Alaska’s economic viability but also for the sake of the nation’s...
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Biden administration ANWR move puts Lisa Murkowski on the defensive
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Washington Examiner ^
| 6/2/21 | Kerry Picket
President Joe Biden and his administration have courted Sen. Lisa Murkowski, with some success. But
their recent move on Arctic drilling puts the Alaska Republican in a tough spot heading into reelection.
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Biden-Sanders ‘Unity’ Platform Pledges to Close ANWR Again, Reversing Trump
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breitbart.com ^
| 7/9/2020 | Joel B Pollak
Former Vice President Joe Biden released a set of policy recommendations on Wednesday that included a proposal to close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas exploration and development. ANWR
was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1980. But local biologists joked that Congress had confused ANWR with another large bloc of federal land in northern Alaska, the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), because ANWR had more oil and NPR-A had more wildlife.
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Trump Administration Postpones ANWR Meetings As Lisa Murkowski Calls For Shutdown To End
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dailycaller.com ^
| 1/10/2019 | Michael Bastasch
BLM’s announcement comes after Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the lawmakers behind legislation to open ANWR, broke with President Donald Trump and GOP leadership and called for an end to the government shutdown. Murkowski
said Tuesday that federal agencies can be reopened that “don’t have anything to do with border security.” Murkowski’s remarks came ahead of Trump’s televised address calling for Congress to fund a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
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It’s off limits; Fish & Wildlife ANWR plan bans oil development in coastal plain of refuge
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Petroleum News ^
| Week of February 01, 2015 | Alan Bailey
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has published a final environmental impact statement for the agency’s conservation plan for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In that EIS the agency has selected a plan alternative that recommends that Congress should designate the entire refuge as wilderness, (see map page 23) including the coastal
plain area, sometimes known as the 1002 area. This wilderness designation would place the entire refuge off limits for oil and gas exploration and development. Land in the immediate vicinity of the coastal village of Kaktovik would be excluded from the wilderness designation but would still require Congressional...
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Sarah Palin: ‘My First Agenda Item Will Be Making Sure We Open Up ANWR’ to End ‘Fake Energy Crisis’
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Breitbart ^
| 10/06/2022 | ROBERT KRAYCHIK
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), a candidate running to represent Alaska’s At-Large Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, said in an interview on Breitbart News editor Adrienne Ross’s eponymous podcast published on Tuesday that if elected, her policy priority will be to “open up” the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
as a measure against a “fake energy crisis” that President “Biden made.” Palin called for increasing energy and natural resource development in ANWR while highlighting the synthetic nature of rising energy costs driven by government policies marketed by the Biden administration as “environmental” measures.
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Report: Biden to Cancel Oil, Gas Leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Despite High Gas Prices
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Breitbart ^
| June 1, 2021 | Joel B. Polak
President Joe Biden’s administration will reportedly cancel several oil and gas leases granted in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the last weeks of the Trump administration — days after defending similar leases on Alaska’s North Slope. The decision was reported by the Washington Post on Tuesday, and would mark an
attempt to reverse one of President Donald Trump’s historic achievements: the opening of ANWR’s coastal plain in his tax cut legislation in December 2017.
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