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...After writing a report on the gray wolf and studying the Arctic in second grade, Walters was distressed to learn in 2001 of the Bush administration's plans to drill in ANWR. Her activism began with a letter to Vice President Dick Cheney (she says it was never answered), and took off when her mother happened to see a photo exhibit about the Arctic, and put her daughter in touch with the photographer, Lenny Kolm, who has worked with the Alaska Wilderness League for 13 years hosting slide shows. He told Walters about a 1995 Department of Energy report that...
...sixth-grader's second lobbying trip to Washington this year. With the dome of the Capitol building rising above her, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Hillary Clinton and John Kerry nearby, Walters stood on the West Lawn and explained why she opposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: "The people who want to drill in the Refuge talk about all these fancy tools and technology they can use to get a little oil ten years from now," she said, in a louder, stronger voice than when she delivered the same speech to congressmen in the spring. (Before she spoke...
...barrel, China has stepped up its search for proven reserves?witness state-controlled oil giant CNOOC's effort to acquire California-based Unocal over protests from U.S. politicians. On home soil, Beijing now battles its own people. More than 10,000 investors, mostly peasants, secured rights to drill for oil in Shaanxi over the past decade, only to see their holdings nationalized. The drillers characterize the government's strategy as "confiscate now, compensate later," and those who have been paid insist they have not been given enough. In May and June, police arrested nine investors for protesting, and a Beijing...
...dispute was born of good intentions. In 1994, when China produced more oil than it consumed, Beijing allowed county governments in Shaanxi to drill for oil in an effort to alleviate chronic poverty. The counties sold mineral rights to citizens for around $10,000 per square kilometer. Entire villages often pooled their money to invest in rights and rigs. More than 6,000 wells were drilled, and soon the "pump worms," as derricks are known in the local dialect, yielded crude. "I saw people building new houses, hiring teachers for their children," says Liu, who in 1999 formed a company...
Dave Foster, an Army spokesman, said that the drill team that was supposed to use the Harvard housing did not attend the festivities...