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Drill in ANWR for more oil and to lower gas prices
The South Dakota Farm Bureau and American Farm Bureau support the drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
According to the U.S. Energy Administration, the mean estimate of technically recoverable oil in ANWR is 10.4 billion barrels. That is almost half of the total United States proven reserve of 21 billion barrels. So in [...]
Bristol Bay drilling is polarizing issue
Rural Alaska leaders and fishermen are jockeying for President Bush’s attention over the possible lifting of a moratorium on drilling in Bristol Bay and a portion of the Bering Sea.
Not that they speak with one voice.
From east in the Aleutians to west in Dillingham, there’s a lot of differing opinion on whether oil and gas [...]
Point Thomson action likely to go to court
Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski ranks it among his administration’s most important decisions in four years in office — the move last week to take back state leases in the rich Point Thomson natural gas field.
The action is almost sure to provoke what could be an epic legal battle as Exxon Mobil and possibly other giant [...]
