Senate approves ANWR drilling


siconBush's Energy Policy got a win this week when the Senate voted to open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. The vote was 51-49 largely along party lines, with the GOP supporting the cleanup and removal of billions of barrels of oil. Democrats, naturally, want to leave all of that nasty black pollution where it is. Of course this is just a line item in the budget, so it still needs to be reconciled with the House.

On another note, as usual the AP drags out their cute and fluffy bunny photos when talking about ANWR.

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In reality, the ANWR Coastal Plain looks a bit more like this.

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Note the lack of vacationing environmentalists.



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Of course, bringing the stuff over in gargantuan tankers presents no threat whatever to the environment, since - oops...

Posted by: CGHill at March 17, 2005 10:46 PM

No vacationing environmentalists? Too bad. Could we take up a collection to buy them one way tickets to this place of exile, er, cool new vacation spot?

Posted by: markm at March 20, 2005 9:08 AM

There is more to Alaska that barren land. The Caribou florish there during their migratorty season. People that say drilling here poses no significant damge have never been there obviously. By the way i think those empty plains are more appealing than a bunch of Fing oil plants

Posted by: tim at April 7, 2005 3:29 PM

Tim,

The Caribou population in Alaska is booming, precisely because of oil pipelines. They are attracted by the warmth of the pipeline, which leads to increased breeding.

Posted by: Ravenwood at April 7, 2005 3:39 PM

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