http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/anwr/ en-us Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:51:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415772/posts The declining flow of oil from Alaska's North Slope is creating anxiety among executives who run the trans-Alaska pipeline. Within a matter of years, they say, they will need to take costly steps to preserve the life of the 800-mile-long line. If they aren't successful, ice and wax could become a serious problem for the pipeline, increasing the risk of corrosion and spills. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.'s sense of urgency isn't because the North Slope is running out of oil. The Slope's producing oil fields still contain enough oil to supply the pipeline for at least several more decades. Many... Anchorage Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415772/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:51:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350810/posts Energy: An amazing number of oil finds have been made this year, including the biggest in California in 35 years. If the world is running out of oil, why do we keep finding more of it? The mantra of the anti-drilling crowd has been that oil companies like to sit on their leases and the oil in the ground, hoping to drive up the price. They should use the leases they have or lose them, these critics say. They also like to add that the world is running out of oil so it doesn't matter anyway. Occidental Petroleum hasn't been... Real Clear Markets http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350810/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:52:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350368/posts Energy: An amazing number of oil finds have been made this year, including the biggest in California in 35 years. If the world is running out of oil, why do we keep finding more of it? The mantra of the anti-drilling crowd has been that oil companies like to sit on their leases and the oil in the ground, hoping to drive up the price. They should use the leases they have or lose them, these critics say. They also like to add that the world is running out of oil so it doesn't matter anyway. Occidental Petroleum hasn't been... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350368/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:48:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331661/posts Energy Policy: Ignoring peak-oil Cassandras, BP has made another giant oil find in the Gulf of Mexico. We're not running out of oil. Our government just doesn't want us to look for it.The world is running out of oil and good riddance. That's the environmentalists' mantra. But since the first well was drilled near Titusville, Pa., 150 years ago, the prophecy has gone unfulfilled. Trouble is, those darn greedy oil companies keep finding the stuff. Oil has been produced in the Gulf of Mexico since the first well was drilled by Kerr-McGee Corp. in 1947. Some of the wells are... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331661/posts#comment Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:28:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315557/posts Cap-And-Trade: The administration likes to defend bad policies with analogies to the post office. New studies from a business group and the administration itself confirm that cap-and-trade belongs in the dead-letter bin.Along with Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Rep. Ed Markey likens the cost of the Waxman-Markey cap-and trade bill to "about a postage stamp a day," based on estimates made by the Congressional Budget Office and the EPA. But as we and others have shown, they arrive at this magical number in part by ignoring the hit on gross domestic product and employment that will occur. As Garret Vaughan, economist... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315557/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:27:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172374/posts Stimulus: Brazil, a leader in the use of biofuels such as ethanol and in the face of falling oil prices, still plans to spend huge sums to expand its offshore oil resources. Drilling rigs are infrastructure too.With oil prices scraping the bottom of the barrel, pun intended, there wouldn't appear to be much incentive to pursue the development of new oil resources. And in tough economic times worldwide, the necessary investment required would appear to be prohibitive. As the U.S. seeks to get its economy going by building roads, bridges and bicycle paths, Brazil has decided to create jobs and... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172374/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:22:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308350/posts Energy Policy: The chief economist of the International Energy Agency says the world is running out of oil. We've been told that for the last 150 years. The only thing we're running out of is the will to drill.Ever since the first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pa., in 1859, experts have been predicting we would soon run out of oil. The latest is Dr. Fatih Birol, chief economist for the International Energy Agency in Paris, whose job it is to assess future energy supplies by OECD countries. In an interview with the Independent, Dr. Birol says that based... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308350/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 00:39:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299680/posts In Sarah Palin’s own mind, she’s a fierce mother bear, acting on a guttural raw instinct to protect and provide for her young – who apparently include not only her own children but all of the “real Americans” out there who share her conservative views. But Palin no longer sees politics as the best way to do this – or so she says. As she leaves office this weekend, her next step remains unclear, but one thing’s for sure: She’s not letting go of her pro-domestic-oil-drilling stance anytime soon. MOTHER NATURE NETWORK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299680/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:22:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2294482/posts Great IBD Editorial Regarding My "Cap and Tax" Article Yesterday at 7:20pm The political death of Sarah Palin has been greatly exaggerated. In a devastating op-ed in the Washington Post, Alaska's governor exposes the cap-and-tax fraud that has nothing to do with earth's temperature and everything to do with government control of the economy. She also exposes the stealth socialism ambitions of the Democratic left and once again points out the availability of abundant "shovel-ready" resources under America's soil, off America's shores and even in America's rocks. Judging from the reaction from Sen. Kerry and the political arm of George... Facebook http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2294482/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:22:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2293840/posts Palin Vs. Kerry (And MoveOn.org) By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:20 PM The political death of Sarah Palin has been greatly exaggerated. In a devastating op-ed in the Washington Post, Alaska's governor exposes the cap-and-tax fraud that has nothing to do with earth's temperature and everything to do with government control of the economy. She also exposes the stealth socialism ambitions of the Democratic left and once again points out the availability of abundant "shovel-ready" resources under America's soil, off America's shores and even in America's rocks. Judging from the reaction from Sen. Kerry and... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2293840/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:24:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293557/posts Politics: John Kerry, replying to an op-ed Sarah Palin wrote on cap-and-trade, suggests the Alaska governor "check the view from her front porch." What she sees from there, senator, is energy wealth going to waste.The political death of Sarah Palin has been greatly exaggerated. In a devastating op-ed in the Washington Post, Alaska's governor exposes the cap-and-tax fraud that has nothing to do with earth's temperature and everything to do with government control of the economy. She also exposes the stealth socialism ambitions of the Democratic left and once again points out the availability of abundant "shovel-ready" resources under America's... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293557/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:52:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/598440/posts <p>A balanced view of the Arctic National Wildlife Drilling (for oil) debate presented in short summary by Fox.</p> <p>Two Eskimo (not PC!) villages give their views with supporting info from Biologists...</p> <p>The Gwitch'in were among the last Native Americans to come in contact with Europeans and their culture today remains largely intact since that first meeting. The 150 residents of Arctic Village rely heavily on caribou for all kinds of reasons – drying the meat in handmade smokehouses, using bones for tools, and skinning the fur for leggings and moccasins.</p> FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/598440/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2001 11:05:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233905/posts Energy: With Ahab-like determination, environmentalists have once again blocked oil exploration in the American Arctic. They may just have succeeded in putting the American economy on ice.On Friday, a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals Court panel in Washington, D.C., struck down the Bush administration's five-year plan for offshore oil and gas leasing off Alaska's northern coast. The plan was vacated, the panel ruled, because of allegedly insufficient environmental review because its "environmental sensitivity rankings are irrational." What is irrational is that despite a more than three-decade long record of environmental sensitivity at Prudhoe Bay and elsewhere, and despite booming polar... IBD Editorial http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233905/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:20:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261613/posts A top expert tells Congress that oil will be around for a long time and high inventories and low prices are no excuse not to find more. Oil shock? How about a no-oil shock? Be careful what you wish for, goes the old proverb. Well, as we all had hoped, energy prices have fallen — but only as part of the global decline in economic activity. This has been used as an excuse to further discourage exploration for and development of domestic oil resources. But if the economy does recover, that policy could provoke another recession. Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261613/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 14:52:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270013/posts Energy: Will oil hit $250 a barrel? The Russians think so, as crude prices climb to an eight-month high. Meantime, House Republicans advance a plan to help the administration keep a domestic energy promise.The cost of July deliveries of crude bounced over $73 Thursday as the American Petroleum Institute reported shrinking U.S. inventories as the dollar weakens against the euro. Alexei Miller, chairman of the Russian energy giant Gazprom, is repeating his prediction of a year ago that oil may eventually reach the $250 mark. IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270013/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:16:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268386/posts WASHINGTON — Remember back to September, when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was a newly minted vice-presidential candidate and she was asked by ABC's Charlie Gibson about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and her split with her running mate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. At the time, she told Gibson: "We'll agree to disagree, but I'm gonna keep pushing that, and I think, eventually, we're all gonna come together on that one." Apparently Palin wasn't persuasive enough. Tuesday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee shot down Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's effort to open up ANWR to directional drilling. The... McClatchy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268386/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:26:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245453/posts 1. Only 8% of ANWR Would Be Considered for Exploration Only the 1.5 million acre or 8% on the northern coast of ANWR is being considered for development. The remaining 17.5 million acres or 92% of ANWR will remain permanently closed to any kind of development. If oil is discovered, less than 2000 acres of the over 1.5 million acres of the Coastal Plain would be affected. That¹s less than half of one percent of ANWR that would be affected by production activity. 2. Revenues to the State and Federal Treasury Federal revenues would be enhanced by billions of dollars... anwr.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245453/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 17:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207807/posts One of President Obama's chief campaign promises was that his administration would signal the beginning of the end to partisan sniping in Washington and embark on a new era of bipartisanship. Add this to the growing list of Obama's broken or nearly-broken promises. His stimulus bill was one of the most hyper-partisan packages ever put together, prompting CNN to note that Hillary Clinton was correct when she mocked Obama's rhetoric on bipartisanship. If Obama truly wants to provide solutions that would help America's economic situation and move Congress forward towards a greater spirit of non-partisan cooperation,he will support the No... Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207807/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:37:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205101/posts Republicans introduced in both the House and the Senate yesterday a bill entitled the No Cost Stimulus Act of 2009. This breathtakingly simple energy stimulus bill introduced by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) and Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) would accelerate offshore on the Outer Continental Shelf and in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge and force the government to streamline the environmental and regulatory burdens that could otherwise block energy development for years. At a press conference yesterday, Vitter and Bishop explained that this bill would be a literal “threefer”: it creates tens of thousands of jobs, helps reduce dependency on foreign... HumanEvents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205101/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:43:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198589/posts President Obama’s budget director said the White House would consider using a Senate procedural tactic so that only 50 votes would be rquired to pass major healthcare and energy reforms. Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the administration would prefer not to use the budget reconciliation process to push through its package. But he added: "We have to keep everything on the table. We want to get these.... important things done this year." Orszag called healthcare in particular "the key to our fiscal future." Orszag made the comments on ABC’s "This Week with George... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198589/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 01:09:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197688/posts US Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) introduced her previously announced bill to authorize Arctic National Wildlife Refuge development using directional drilling from state lands on Feb. 27. The measure, cosponsored by Alaska's other US senator Democrat Mark Begich, would allow access to the ANWR coastal plain's oil and gas resources from state-owned land to the west and state waters to the north, Murkowski said. She originally outlined her proposal on Feb. 19 (OGJ Online, Feb. 20, 2009). The bill aims to reach a compromise with groups concerned with preserving the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain while improving the US economy and its... Oil & Gas Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197688/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:16:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196118/posts Murkowski introduces ANWR directional drilling legislation Friday, February 27, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today introduced legislation that would allow the use of advanced directional drilling to tap the vast energy potential of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain without disturbing the unique characteristics of the area. The bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, would allow access to the coastal plain’s oil and natural gas resources through the use of underground directional drilling from state-owned lands to the west of the refuge and state waters from the north.  “Everybody wins with this bill –... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196118/posts#comment Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:53:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194680/posts US Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) said on Feb. 19 that she plans to propose using directional drilling on state land and waters in initial Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) oil and gas resources development, with no surface occupancy. That approach means there would be no occupancy, pipelines, construction, or facilities that would impact the refuge or its wildlife, she said in her annual address to Alaska's legislature in Juneau. "America will get the energy it needs, and those concerned about the impact to wilderness will be able to enjoy and preserve the refuge exactly as it is today. It is... Oil & Gas Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194680/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:17:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180663/posts David Corn seems to have had an allergic reaction to Gov. Sarah Palin's op-ed in favor of opening up a small portion of ANWR for drilling. Corn opines: This was his (sic) first stab at being a serious policy person since her unsuccessful vice-presidential bid. And it was swing and a big miss--for multiple reasons.The first "reason" Corn gives is that the governor's opinion piece was published, not by a newspaper from New York or D.C., but the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. To liberal elitists of Corn's ilk, nothing worthwhile can come from flyover country. He must believe that the issue and... Sarah Palin for President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180663/posts#comment Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:38:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176935/posts Drill, baby, drill. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continues her push for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, arguing against legislation barring oil development in the federally protected region. “I am dismayed that legislation has again been introduced in Congress to prohibit forever oil and gas development in the most promising unexplored petroleum province in North America,” the Alaska governor wrote in an op-ed published in Monday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune. The former Republican vice presidential candidate publicly championed the exploitation of domestic energy supply in Alaska’s northern coastal plains CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176935/posts#comment Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:52:26 GMT