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Obama seeks bigger wilderness designation in Alaska refuge
wthr ^ | 1/25/2015 | BECKY BOHRER and JIM KUHNHENN

Posted on 01/25/2015 5:47:34 PM PST by digger48

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - President Barack Obama is proposing to designate the vast majority of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a wilderness area, including its potentially oil-rich coastal plain, drawing an angry response from top state elected officials who see it as a land grab by the federal government.

"They've decided that today was the day that they were going to declare war on Alaska. Well, we are ready to engage," said U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and chair of the Senate energy committee.

The designation would set aside an additional nearly 12.3 million acres as wilderness, including the coastal plain near Alaska's northeast corner, giving it the highest degree of federal protection available to public lands. More than 7 million acres of the refuge currently are managed as wilderness.

The refuge's coastal plain has long been at the center of the struggle between conservationists and advocates of greater energy exploration in the U.S. Political leaders in Alaska have supported allowing for exploration and production within the coastal plain. They have opposed attempts to further restrict development on federal lands, which comprise about two-thirds of the state, including within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

A resolution passed the state Legislature with bipartisan support last year urging Congress to allow for exploration and development on the coastal plain. A federal lawsuit brought by the state over the Interior Department's refusal to consider a proposed exploration plan for the refuge's coastal plain is pending. The state in 2013 proposed an exploration plan that it said was aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential in the refuge.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alaska; landgrab; obamalandgrab; russiatunnel
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1 posted on 01/25/2015 5:47:34 PM PST by digger48
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To: digger48

Stop the A$$hole!


2 posted on 01/25/2015 5:50:38 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Obama seeks bigger wilderness designation in Alaska refuge -— PING!!

Watch out for your Back!!


3 posted on 01/25/2015 5:52:47 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: digger48

If wouldn’t have dared tried this kind of crap in Kenya. It must be nice to have the honkies scared to death of you.


4 posted on 01/25/2015 5:53:37 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When the hell do I get MY white privilege? I'm tired of busting my @$$ for a living.)
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To: digger48
The undocumented cryptoMoslem with ties
to al Qaeda was installed by the DNC, Soros,
and SCOTUS in an ex parte meeting.

But Americans ask:
WHERE ARE HIS DOCUMENTS?


5 posted on 01/25/2015 5:53:40 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Empireoftheatom48
Hear, hear.

They've got millions of rounds...and all the media...

6 posted on 01/25/2015 5:53:49 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: digger48

What an idiot. Alaska has more nature reserves than any other state by far.

This is just more political kabuki to pacify the environmental wack-jobs donors.

“I fought to expand Federally protected reserves in Alaska, but those mean Republicans stopped me. Send us money now!”


7 posted on 01/25/2015 5:56:45 PM PST by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: 9thLife

Go away, Zero.


8 posted on 01/25/2015 5:57:06 PM PST by Check6 (United States of Moronia: A nation of morons ruled by a gang of communist thugs.)
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To: digger48

Nope. Reduce it!!


9 posted on 01/25/2015 5:57:45 PM PST by iowacornman (Romney is the father of government health care.)
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To: digger48
Białowieża?
10 posted on 01/25/2015 6:02:11 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: digger48

Reminds me if Bill Clinton and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Which - if memory serves - we later found out was done to help out energy interests in a foreign country.


11 posted on 01/25/2015 6:04:22 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: digger48

The next American president should abolish the EPA and all federal ownership of land other than national parks. The federal government has no business owning two-thirds of any state.


12 posted on 01/25/2015 6:05:12 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: garjog

“..I fought to expand Federally protected reserves in Alaska...”

::::::::::

“I fought to confiscate more land for the Federal government to keep it away from American citizens...”


13 posted on 01/25/2015 6:05:48 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: digger48

“who see it as a land grab by the federal government.”

good eyesight!!!

NUKE THE POLAR BEARS NOW!


14 posted on 01/25/2015 6:09:49 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

NUKE THE POLAR BEARS NOW!

Should that be GAY Polar Bears?


15 posted on 01/25/2015 6:15:05 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: EagleUSA

States Rights issue, Just ignore him!


16 posted on 01/25/2015 6:15:09 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: digger48

The Democrats pushed hard to get Lisa Murkowski elected on the Independent line, in place of a conservative Republican. Good to see her badmouthing Obama now.


17 posted on 01/25/2015 6:17:14 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: digger48

To say he is ‘out of control’ is obvious.


18 posted on 01/25/2015 6:17:20 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Steely Tom

Which was never done away with was it? Why W didn’t do away with some of the idiocy and bad ideas of the grifter hillbilly traitor defies logic and sense.


19 posted on 01/25/2015 6:18:36 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: digger48

12.3 million acres equates to an area the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined


20 posted on 01/25/2015 6:18:42 PM PST by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
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