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rofgilead · 11-03-2005, 08:52 PM

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The Senate allowed the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) drilling as a provision in the year's budget bill. This means that it will probably pass the Senate, and the House is most likely even more in favor.

I find this very frustrating! Wilderness areas are the most protected lands in the United States, and haven't been opened up for resource grabbing since John Muir fought over Hetch Hetchy valley in California. If the most protected of our resources can be opened up - I fear this will be a precedent that will allow more of our wilderness areas and forests to be opened up for very temporally limited resource grabbing that has lasting effects in those areas. Just look at the costs of mining - or the loss of virgin forest to see effects that we can't really fix.

And this is just for oil. Blah. It isn't going to fix our oil problems - those have to do with global supply and demand - and China is going to gobble up as much as it can, along with India, driving our prices up continuously no matter how much more we can produce.

Oh well.

Bush re-election = ANWR drilling, conservative judges, Iraq war continuing...

3 more years...

11-03-2005, 08:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
rofgilead Crazy Location: Nowhere	Senate allows ANWR drilling in Budget Bill... Story - <href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9727001/">MSNBC story coverage</href> The Senate allowed the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) drilling as a provision in the year's budget bill. This means that it will probably pass the Senate, and the House is most likely even more in favor. I find this very frustrating! Wilderness areas are the most protected lands in the United States, and haven't been opened up for resource grabbing since John Muir fought over Hetch Hetchy valley in California. If the most protected of our resources can be opened up - I fear this will be a precedent that will allow more of our wilderness areas and forests to be opened up for very temporally limited resource grabbing that has lasting effects in those areas. Just look at the costs of mining - or the loss of virgin forest to see effects that we can't really fix. And this is just for oil. Blah. It isn't going to fix our oil problems - those have to do with global supply and demand - and China is going to gobble up as much as it can, along with India, driving our prices up continuously no matter how much more we can produce. Oh well. Bush re-election = ANWR drilling, conservative judges, Iraq war continuing... 3 more years...