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...urge Congress to reject the energy bill introduced by Senate Republicans last week that would permit exploratory oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The 19-million-acre region is one of the last territories of unspoiled wilderness in the United States, a refuge ecosystem home to hundreds of plant and animal species. Birds from across North America depend on the refuge as a vital migration area, as do caribou herds on which a number of native Alaskan communities rely. There is no reason to threaten this wilderness when we should be working towards energy conservation and efficiency...
...personally think that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not a good idea. There's no incentive for conservation right now. Now, I know Alaska very well and I know that they are desperate in Alaska for sources of taxes. That economy is heavily based on the flow of oil and it's running out. So no one pays taxes, no one wants to give up their gift from the state every year and they need more oil--that's the way they look at it. There are two powerful senators from Alaska. You have a president...
...this is the point when the energy debate starts to sound a little like the one over the drug war. When it comes to the U.S.' energy addiction, it's one thing to reduce one's dependence on foreign dealers - nothing bad about that. But instead of drilling the Arctic, and the bayou, and doling out tax credits to keep derricks moving, Democrats are making the case that the only long-term solutions start with reducing demand...
...Metaphoropolis." "Unveiling the Arctic." Something in demotic French...
...idea in 1996 from an article about the first, and at that time only, ice hotel, in Sweden. "Why not build an ice hotel here in Quebec?" he asked himself. If some 40,000 visitors a year were willing to travel to a tiny village 125 miles above the Arctic Circle to visit the Swedish ice hotel, Desbois reasoned, how many more would come to one in a place as accessible as the city of Quebec, which already attracts more than 6 million visitors each year? Once armed with partners, funding and a feasibility plan, he entered into an agreement...