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Caribou-Hoo-Hoo
Senate votes to open Arctic Refuge to drilling |
Amanda Griscom Little |
16 Mar 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Stickin' it to the porcupine caribou in the Arctic Refuge. Photo: Ken Whitten, Wilderness Society. Oil companies are closing in on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In a crushing blow to those who have fought for some 25 years to preserve the unspoiled Alaskan wildland, the Senate voted today to clear the way for oil and gas drilling within the Arctic Refuge. By a 51-49 vote, they rejected a ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, Arctic Refuge, energy, Muckraker, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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