Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Salazar directional-drilling comments add fuel to fires of ANWR debate

By David O. Williams | 03.17.09 | 1:56 pm

Even the hint of a suggestion that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar could be considering caving in on oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska has ruffled the feathers of environmentalists – and a few Arctic terns – who thought the place was bulletproof under the Obama administration.

Palin ‘keeps pushing’ on ANWR drilling, but 527 group pushes back

By David O. Williams | 10.09.08 | 8:37 am

Even as Sarah Palin “keeps pushing” Sen. John McCain on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), environmentalists have formed a 527 group to fight the Alaska governor and her oil-and-gas industry allies and keep McCain from caving on the issue during his presidential campaign.