[The Loan Arranger]

Good news, from the sound of it.

[mlbford2]

Folks in Alaska will be happy about this. They have been wanting to drill forever. The new jobs and influx of revenues will be good for them. I'm sure that there will be 1000s of enviro nuts just waiting for 1 drop of oil to hit the ground and they will claim environmental disaster.

[7.62 x 51mm]

GREAT NEWS! Drill away!!

[microgood]

Good news for the caribou too. If they don't keep pumping oil through the pipleline, those critters are going to freeze to death.

[stockstrader]

Great news!! Hopefully, ANWR will be next!

[SouthTexas]

It's not ANWR, but at least a step in the right direction. All I want is MY share of the oil, the wackos can keep all the caribou.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Johnny Crab]

Good news indeed.

The other good news I keep waiting to hear is WHEN a natural gas pipeline will be run from the vast reserves that now are either pumped back into the ground or have to be liquified, shipped via tanker to an LNG terminal, and then "defrosted" to be put back into the US grid.

[Quix]

Wonderful.

Gopher baroque.

[newsgatherer]

Good news bump

[aShepard]

THIS IS TERRIBLE NEWS!

Yet, it's great news!

Bush hasn't talked this up enough for the average American to be able to fathom the difference between neighboring petro fields, and ANWAR!

My prediction: this news will be a total disaster to Bush. Pelosi may even crack her face open with the vitriol!
Teddy will talk about windvanes in the Chappaquiddick pond; Biden will lecture us about, well, whatever!

[Thinkin' Gal]

The Bureau of Land Management has concluded that oil and gas exploration in the northeastern corner of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska can be conducted with "minimal impact" on the area's wildlife.

And...

The Fish and Wildlife Service, which like the BLM is part of the Interior Department, has said the area around Lake Teshekpuk in the northeast corner of the NPRA is among the most important molting areas in the entire Arctic for wild geese. It is also used for calving and insect relief by herds of caribou.

The BLM, however, has concluded that more than 400,000 acres surrounding Lake Teshekpuk should be opened for exploratory drilling with restrictions.

Teshekpuk Lake is located on Alaska’s North Slope in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. “Teshekpuk” means “the largest lake of all” in the native Inupiat tongue.

GEOTIMES

Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

[Rudder]

I've been trying for a few years now to get a well dug on my property. This area (SE Ohio) has some of the best-producing old, shallow wells and newer, very deep wells in the country. We had a boom here in the 70's-80's. Anyway..I found a good driller-producer and we're negotiating. I asked him--2 weeks ago--if the US govt was doing anything to promote domestic drilling. He said, "Not one bit, no grants, no tax relief...nothing"

"Well," I said, somewhat indignantly, "why not?!"

"We're keeping for ourselves...as a national hedge against failure of foreign supply."

[Chgogal]

Excellent!

[ChadGore]

[lodwick]

Finally, a bit of good news from the jackasses in dc.

You know it's there, just drill it.

[NormsRevenge]

**FILE PHOTO** The rolling tundra of the Alaskan North Slope are shown in this undated aerial photo. The U.S. government plans to open thousands of acres for exploratory drilling after the Bureau of Land Management (news - web sites) concluded that oil and gas exploration in the northeastern corner of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska can be conducted with 'minimal impact' on the area's wildlife. (AP Photo/Bureau of Land Management)

[BibChr]

Citing a need for domestic energy, the government plans to open for exploratory drilling thousands of acres on Alaska's North Slope that have been protected for decades because of migratory birds and caribou

Nossir, no bias in that report.

Dan

[mewzilla]

And any enviroweenie who whines about it should be asked what he/she drives. I'll bet it won't be a compact.