Posted on 08/24/2008 9:29:58 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Congress has repeatedly refused to allow drilling on the 2,000 acres set aside for that purpose in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a tiny portion of tundra in a 19-million-acre preserve. That parcel had been created with the specific intent of extracting oil from the area when ANWR first received its federal protection, but environmentalists have continually blocked oil companies through other federal action. Sean Parnell, the Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, has a proposal to end federal oversight on that stretch of barren land:
Sean Parnell, lieutenant governor and a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, proposed a land swap as a way of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
“I propose a land swap of 2,000 acres of state land to the federal government in exchange for 2,000 acres of the coastal plain in ANWR into state hands,” Parnell said at a press conference Tuesday in Fairbanks.
Parnell said he could work with Gov. Sarah Palin and the administration to identify the 2,000 acres of state land that would be traded, perhaps extending a portion of ANWR by 2,000 acres.
Could this defuse the controversy? In a land swap, the federal government would not lose an inch of overall land.
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Never compromise with socialists. It will come back to haunt you. We need to force them to open ANWR to drilling. We now have the opportunity to do that at the ballot box in November.
It's not hard to understand; but it is hard to accept:
They want shortages of life-sustaining commodities.
They want our economy in the tank.
They want to fund our enemies.
So we "trade" 2000 more acres to the Communist envirowackos and after they get it, they go back to some "court" and get one of their "judges" to tell us we still can't drill in ANWR. This isn't a good idea. We're dealing with anti-American/anti-capitalists here who are "trying to save the planet" by destroying America's economy and taking total control over the American people.
Never assume that the Left will hold up their side of bargain in good faith.
That’s not a solution.
How bout 100% of “federal” land is turned over to the state?
And for that matter, then 90% of that land is turned over to, I don’t know, actual citizens.
The feds shouldn’t own anything; they should be guests paying rent for the privilege. The amount of land “owned” by gov’ts (fed and state), that is, locked away from citizens’ with any productive use barred, is inexcusable.
Sell it all, put the money towards retiring the federal debt, and couple it with an amendment requiring spending never to exceed revenues and a 75% vote to raise any tax and a 25% to lower/remove any tax.
Oh... but the ANWAR tundra is special and I’m certain is just teaming with little forest creatures that will be killed or poisoned if we drill there. (sarcasm)
Thanks Ernest.
Heh heh... that’s what’s known as an end run... and this needs to be pushed, hard, so that the Demwits get to go on record, once again, as being against drilling and against domestic production of energy.
Land sinkage.
An insane idea.
ANWR is ALREADY the result of a land swap.
The coastal plain (area 1002) was set aside for oil/gas exploration in a deal to double the size of ANWR with the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
The deal has never been upheld after the land grab was completed.
Thanks for the info.
Just change the name to the Anwar National Mosquitor Refuge.
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