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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Eh, 20 percent, 3.5 percent, who's counting? McCain/Palin energy lie about Alaska the latest to come in for media scrutiny	David Roberts	15 Sep 2008	Gristmill
In her Friday interview with Charlie Gibson, Sarah Palin said that Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." McCain has said the same thing -- in an interview with Univision that aired Friday, he said, "Alaska supplies 20 percent of America's energy." It's clearly an established campaign talking point. Thing is, it's false. FactCheck.org debunks it here. Alaska is responsible for 3.5 percent of domestic energy pr ...
Topics: Alaska, elections, energy, John McCain, lying liars, mainstream media, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin (all these topics)

As a matter of fact you can't take your eyes off these people Oil companies target the fragile Arctic continental shelf for oil drilling	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
You're probably against drilling in the Alaskan Refuge, but what you really ought to be worried about is offshore drilling on Alaska's continental shelf, which isn't protected by law or by close attention from environmentalists -- and where the likelihood and impact of accidents are far worse. Read Peter Matthiessen's definitive piece in The Nation: When one considers the more than four thousand spills -- over one a day -- recorded by the oil industry in its land ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, oceans, oil, oil and gas drilling, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Oopsy Daisy Alaskan study says 2 million gallons of oil, seawater spilled over 10 years		13 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Oopsy Daisy Alaskan study says 2 million gallons of oil, seawater spilled over 10 years Did you hear about the 2-million-gallon spill in the Alaskan tundra? No, you didn't, because it happened slowly, from different sources, over the course of 10 years. A study by the state's Department of Environmental Conservation says spills on the North Slope between 1995 and 2005 included a 994,40 ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

When Teshekpuk Comes to Shove Sensitive Alaska wetlands spared from drilling plan -- for now		25 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
When Teshekpuk Comes to Shove Sensitive Alaska wetlands spared from drilling plan -- for now In good news for conservationists, the Department of Interior has announced willingness to exclude the sensitive Teshekpuk Lake wetlands from a region of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that it wants to open to oil and natural-gas drilling. The move has little to ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Unto the Lease of These Judge halts oil lease sale to protect Alaskan wetlands		08 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Unto the Lease of These Judge halts oil lease sale to protect Alaskan wetlands Ruling that the Bush administration failed to properly consider the impact of oil development on sensitive wetlands, a U.S. district judge has temporarily blocked an upcoming Alaska oil-lease sale of about 1.7 million acres. The Bushies had heard the call of up to 2 billion barrels of oil beneath the permaf ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

The Definition of Insanity Bush administration will open 8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling		25 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
The Definition of Insanity Bush administration will open 8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling As only makes sense following a disaster in northern Alaska involving oil spills and corroded pipelines, the Bush administration next month plans to open 8 million northwestern Alaska acres to oil and natural gas development. The area, in the National Petroleum Reserve, co ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

OK, We'll Just Drill Over Here Instead Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling		12 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
OK, We'll Just Drill Over Here Instead Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling The Bush administration's lust for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge having gone unrequited, it's going to stick its derricks in some sloppy seconds: The Department of Interior is opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of other Alaskan wildlife habitat to dri ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Sen. Ted Stevens: Crybaby	David Roberts	22 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has spent the last week or so -- nay, the last 25 years -- attempting to circumvent the clearly and repeatedly expressed preferences of a majority of U.S. citizens by allowing oil drilling to take place in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The latest attempt involved attaching drilling to the defense appropriations bill, in effect holding military funding hostage in the middle of an armed conflict. We have perhaps become num ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Drilling in ANWR will hurt the environment! No it won't! Yes it ... yawn	Corey McKrill	30 Nov 2005	Gristmill
A while back I filled out the little form for NRDC's letter-writing campaign to save the Arctic Refuge. It sends a message to your Congressman, urging them oppose oil and gas development in the region. It's probably the tenth one of those things I've submitted regarding the refuge. (It's so easy; just type in your email and click 'send.' No thought involved.) I often question the usefulness of online campaigns and the implications of such mindless 'citizen participatio ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Senate votes to keep Arctic Refuge drilling in budget bill	Grist	03 Nov 2005	Gristmill
The campaign to keep oil drills out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has just been dealt what could be a fatal blow. Yesterday, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) introduced an amendment to drop refuge-drilling language from a filibuster-proof federal budget bill; today, the Senate voted down that amendment, 48 to 51. 'This is too important a question to slide into the budget bill,' Cantwell said yesterday. 'We are setting a very, very dangerous precedent.' But Senate Majorit ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, legislation, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Hope Against Slope Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling		24 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Hope Against Slope Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling The Bush administration plans to open to drilling more than 400,000 acres of Alaska's North Slope thought to be vital to migratory birds and caribou, after the Bureau of Land Management determined that drilling can be done with "minimum impact" on wildlife. Interior Secretary Gale Nort ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

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