Obama Seeks to Name Potentially Oil-Rich Part of Alaska Protected 'Wilderness'

CNSNews ^ | January 25, 2015 | AP

[jazusamo]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is boosting protection of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and will ask Congress to designate more than 12 million acres as a wilderness area, including its potentially oil-rich Coastal Plain.

The designation would seal off the area in Alaska's northeast corner from oil exploration and give it the highest degree of federal protection available to public lands. Obama and the Interior Department announced the effort Sunday.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

United Nations’ agent King Zero brings ‘Agenda 21’ a couple more steps FORWARD.

[SandRat]

Obama Seeks to Name Potentially Oil-Rich Part of Alaska Protected ‘Wilderness’ -— PING!

[PCPOET7]

there needs to be a law that the government can not own more then 25% of a state. the government controls far to much of Alaska.

[armydawg505]

Won’t happen, His days of land grabs are over.

[Slambat]

“So the next president undoes the designation.”

Don’t count on it. The next president will be from a
choice of two candidates that were chosen for us.
There are only liberals and conservatives and right now
the liberals have a majority in both parties.

[cableguymn]

5% is to much.

[Mr. K]

this country is being run by idiots

[SECURE AMERICA]

Obama will never stop trying to screw America while he is in office.........

[FlingWingFlyer]

Kenya’s destruction of the United States of America continues.

[VRW Conspirator]

... designate more than 12 million acres as a wilderness area, including its potentially oil-rich Coastal Plain.

I believe that the ultimate goal is not to protect the environment or produce "green" energy. The Libs want to control us. Most of America drives vehicles to get to where they need to go. The control freaks want to throttle that freedom.

[clearcarbon]

"Obama Seeks to Name Potentially Oil-Rich Part of Alaska Protected 'Wilderness'"

Interesting suggestion. Extract the oil first, then if demRATs still want to turn the area into a protected wilderness, than it might be reconsidered. But they probably couldn't care less then.

[bray]

He needs to raise gas prices. These cheap prices are his worst nightmare.

Pray America is waking

[Alberta's Child]

As with the ANWR issue in Congress when Nancy Pelosi was the House Speaker, this is all just a con game that is being played out against the environmentalist lobby by the Obama administration.

The Federal government will declare some part of Alaska off-limits to oil/gas exploration.

Meanwhile, every energy giant in the world is investing tens of billions of dollars in offshore exploration in the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean that is going to make the energy resources in ANWR completely irrelevant.

Obama will dislocate his shoulder while patting himself on the back.

The environmentalists will think they've won a great victory in Washington, and they won't know any better because 99% of them have probably never been within a thousand miles of ANWR anyway.

The energy sector drills like there's no tomorrow.

[moviefan8]

I wonder if all of this blocking off land is being used as collateral for all of the debt we are issuing and they are just saying it is to protect the environment.

[Big Red Badger]

Perchance a strong wind would blow the dumbo eared boy king out to sea.

[PCPOET7]

I tend to agree with you. my mistake in being liberal with the land percentage on a conservative site. my personal feeling is to limit land ownership to military bases government buildings like Quart houses and legislative governing buildings. Unless federal land is being used it should be in state control. I look at federal control of land as a cancer on economic development.

[Salvation]

Devious.