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...drill Detroit, not the Arctic" campaign will find some support this week when the National Academy of Sciences releases a long-awaited study. The report, toned down after the auto industry protested that raising fuel-efficiency standards, by making cars lighter, makes vehicles less safe, is still likely to conclude that fuel efficiency can be increased at least 25% with existing technology...
...First, in a show of GOP loyalty that will almost certainly not survive a broader vote in the full House (and forget about the Senate), the Resources Committee forwarded by a 26-17 vote the Administration's plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and exempt oil companies for two years from paying government royalties on oil obtained under new drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Taking notes for Senate Democrats, Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., called the product a $7.4 billion ''grab bag of goodies for big oil'' and an ''unprecedented assault on our resources...
...sandstone canyon southwest of Billings, Mont., is known as Weatherman Draw. The BLM leases the mineral rights to the site for $1 per acre per year, or $160--about the price of an average downtown parking spot. To the Anschutz Exploration Corp. of Denver, which holds a permit to drill for oil there, the canyon is designated as Federal Lease MTM-74615. Should the company's wells pan out, the canyon could be worth millions. Finally, to the numerous Native American tribes that revere the canyons' ancient rock drawings of warriors, shields and animals, the place is known...
...their quarrels over public resources, how can Westerners find common ground when the ground itself has so many different names? This remote Montana canyon may hold some answers. Last spring, when the Interior Department ruled that Anschutz had a right to drill here, it touched off a negotiating process as complicated as a Native dance. Tribes from the Comanche to the Crow, who had long used the canyon as place of worship and regard it (as do anthropologists) as a living link to their collective pasts, petitioned Washington to reverse its policy. The BLM stood pat, so the tribes went...
...designated as federal lease MTM-74615. It brings in just $1 an acre from the Anschutz Corp., which plans to drill for oil. But to the Comanche, Crow and Blackfeet it is revered as the Valley of the Chiefs...