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Bush may end drilling ban in Alaskan bay
2006-12-03
AP / Seattle PI Spin Warning...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush is deciding whether to lift a ban on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Alaska's Bristol Bay, home to endangered whales and sea lions and the world's largest sockeye salmon run.

Leasing in a portion of the area rich in oil and natural gas ended nearly two decades ago - while Bush's father was president - in the outcry after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. But with natural gas prices higher, the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service proposed reopening up the North Aleutian Basin. That includes Bristol Bay and part of southeastern Bering Sea.
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#10  It might provide "200 million barrels of crude oil, about what the U.S. imports every 16 days.

Oh, that's really brilliant. Destroy the whole fuckin' area for 16 day's worth of oil.

WHAT is going on?

Posted by: ex-lib   2006-12-03 23:15  

#9  Wow, WHAT is wrong with Mr. President? Over the past 4 decades, environmental concerns are thee #1 rallying point across party lines. When it comes to the health of the land, water, and sky, party lines disappear. This is the indisputable record. Like his father before him, the younger Bush seems to be shooting himself in the foot on the way out. With a machine gun. And like dear old dad, he's taking the Republican Party down with him.

Yes, I'm ticked.
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-12-03 23:11  

#8  I wouldn't mind Evergreen turning to Everfrost... might focus his neuron.
Posted by: .com   2006-12-03 15:06  

#7  How about banning Alaskan oil exports to the Puget Sound and SF Bay Areas? I can sleep quite soundly knowing Alaskan oil is air freighted nightly to Texas oil refineries.
Posted by: ed   2006-12-03 15:00  

#6  Fine, but understand that "Subsidy" is very unpopular for now and drilling does minimal damage and maximum contrubution to what it is we are trying to build. In 30 years from now, Even though you are driving a Hydro vehicle, Someone in China may still need oil to run a vehicle way up there in the mountains.
Posted by: closedanger@hotmail.com   2006-12-03 14:14  

#5  Oh, goody. Our Tacoma chucklehead has again graced our presence.
Posted by: Pappy   2006-12-03 13:50  

#4  this belongs to Alaskans, not the congress.
Posted by: Icerigger   2006-12-03 12:52  

#3  you guys can eat oil, instead of food as the vast majority seem to be non human anyway.
Posted by: Crinese Glineger7291   2006-12-03 10:49  

#2  that happens to be where all the salmon comes from, pretty much.
Posted by: Crinese Glineger7291   2006-12-03 10:48  

#1  A problem for every solution.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2006-12-03 01:29  

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