ANWR legislation back in Congress

KTUU.com ^ | Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007 | Jason Moore

[Species8472]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Congressional delegation is preparing for another fight over the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.

Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman introduced a bill that would designate the coastal plain of the Arctic refuge as "wilderness."

Backers of the bill say it would permanently protect the refuge from oil development.

The Alaska delegation quickly sent out a statement saying they intend to defeat the bill.

The delegation called the bill a short-sighted proposal and say ANWR is the nation's best chance to increase domestic oil production.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Well,unless the case is made to the American people that we’re going to need to build more refineries in the short term to solve our energy needs, it’s not going to happen. The environmentalists will keep democrats from supporting this. If the arguement is made that we’re going to build refineries and maintain them only until the oil and energy companies can replace oil it with bio-fuels, then we might have a shot neutralizing the liberal stranglehold on the congress.

[RightWhale]

The environmentalists will keep democrats from supporting this.

Consider that the enviros are not the power but the pawns of the real power.