Posted on 12/21/2017 2:52:33 PM PST by MAGA2017
During her nearly four years as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell said, oil companies did not pressure her about opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling.
Politicians, however, were a different story.
Jewell says she heard about the issue repeatedly from Alaska’s governor and members of Congress, who were worried about a state budget crisis amid plummeting oil prices and declining local production. The state of Alaska, which lacks a sales tax and an income tax, relies on oil revenues to pay for the vast majority of its state budget, as well as fund popular yearly dividend checks to residents.
Now, under the tax-reform bill just approved by Congress, Alaska is set to get half of the revenue from opening up a coastal portion of the 19-million-acre wilderness area to drilling.
Because the plan to allow drilling on the refuge’s coastal plain was buried in the GOP tax bill, Republicans in Congress were able to pass the controversial environmental policy with a simple-majority vote and minimal discussion. Efforts by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, to strip ANWR from the tax plan failed.
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Ha ha ha! Losers.
They just can’t accept the fact that they were rejected. They aren’t running things and people hated the 8 years of RAT destruction of America.
Melting snowflakes, useful idiots, funded by China and Russia.
the next step by these ass clowns is make is as usual, to the courts where their lefty brethren are waiting to make another judgment. Same playbook for the year..
ANWR has repeatedly been described as a “pristine” wilderness.
Years ago, I recall liberal after liberal using the obscure word “pristine” when arguing against drilling or exploration there.
Which goes to show, liberals parrot back what they are told to think about an issue. What are the odds that some many people would independently of each other, describe a place none of them will ever visit, in exactly the same way?
Yes, it is.
The fight to “save” it...they never quit with the hyperbole and emotionally charged language.
I'm sure it was a case of "Why waste our breath?".
ANWAR is flat, mosquito ridden wasteland that will be vastly improved by oil drilling.
Man generally improves areas he moves into.
I bet the caribou herds increase.
That is what happened with the oil pipeline.
Somebody needs to tell her to get in the back of the bus, we driving now.
They all get their morning email blast with the talking points.
Remember "gravitas"?
Can’t we get a Progressive, Obama judge to overrule both the president and Congress? Seems like it’s been happening pretty regularly
Go home, DemonRats.
Why didn’t the Democrats filibuster the tax bill? My understanding is that non-judicial considerations are still subject to the 60 vote hurdle.
Quote from Steyn...I’m assuming during Bushie’s presidency:
“If you can’t sell the country on the need (to drill ANWR) when you’re at war with a bunch of Islamofascists from the Middle East, when can you? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to fly to Alaska and do a walkabout with all the locals who are itching for the drilling to start? And, while you’re at it, give a speech out on the ugly barren wasteland the eco-loonies have declared inviolable while getting pecked to pieces by the world’s biggest mosquito herd, whose needs apparently outrank those of the American people.”
I’m guessing that with new and improved drilling methods and fracking, that it is cheaper to get the oil out of Texas and North Dakota for now.
BUT - I’m also guessing that with the re-opening of the Arctic, they will continue exploration of the area for when it becomes cost-effective to drill up there again.
Fun to watch.
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I was in Anchorage over the weekend and that is exactly what a couple of locals told me. The land being portrayed by the environmentalists is NOT where the intended drilling is located.
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