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...someone who was born and raised in Alaska, I want to address some misconceptions about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Many people believe that developing ANWR would destroy an otherwise pristine wilderness in exchange for just six months’ worth of oil. But such statements rely upon misleading or false facts for their support; in truth, ANWR is a 19-million-acre region, of which eight million acres have already been put into formal wilderness status and an additional 9.5 million acres are designated as wildlife refuge. Those 17.5 million acres form a protected area, nearly as large...
Furthermore, the coastal plain is far from a pristine wilderness untouched by human hands, unlike the other 17.5 million acres already protected. It is a flat, treeless, almost featureless plain in northeastern Alaska home to a military radar site and the Inupiat Eskimo community of Kaktovik, a village of 260 complete with houses, stores, a school, power lines and many other modern-day facilities. The town even has its own oil well...
...hasn't been a great couple of months for Washington's environmental lobby. Bush's new budget was delivered Monday; it cuts roughly $500 million from the EPA's coffers. In addition, the new administration has advocated oil exploration in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge, struck down newly enacted emissions limits for power stations and abandoned updated standards for the amount of arsenic in water. And so, despite assurances from an Interior Department spokesman that Thursday's announcement simply represents a way out from the weight of accumulating citizen lawsuits and "to help us move toward a rational system," Bush...
...fact that in-house study teams such as this are often simply places where orphan ideas are sent to die. More substantively, Vice President Cheney has been heading up an energy task force that is due to issue recommendations in May. Along with calling for increased oil exploration in Alaska and new oil and gas pipelines, the panel's recommendations may include research into cleaner ways to burn coal. Significantly, the team is also expected to suggest renewed construction of nuclear power plants, which put out no carbon but generate extremely radioactive waste...
...American Shipbuilding Association, however, doesn't like to call them subsidies, and is determined to get its dough. It has lined up support from coastal-state Republicans, from Majority Leader Trent Lott (from Mississippi) to Appropriations Committee czar Ted Stevens (from Alaska). Democrat John B. Breaux (from Louisiana) recently wrote Bush that the guarantees should in fact be tripled, to $100 million. Lott cosigned...