Showing posts with label ANWR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ANWR. Show all posts
Saturday, December 02, 2017

Under the cover of darkness the Republicans pass massive tax overhaul.

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Courtesy of the New York Times :   The Senate passed the most sweeping tax rewrite in decades early Saturday, with Republicans lining up...
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Friday, November 10, 2017

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski reminding everybody that she is still a Republican.

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Courtesy of HuffPo :   Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced legislation Wednesday night that would open a portion of a pristine wil...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

With Republicans in control of White House, the Senate, and Congress, all eyes turn to ANWR.

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Courtesy of WaPo :   The Trump administration is quietly moving to allow energy exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for t...
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Saturday, June 03, 2017

With everybody focused on Trump pulling out of the Paris accords, we almost missed that his administration wants to start drilling more giant holes in Alaska.

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Courtesy of Newsweek :   With all eyes on President Donald Trump’s announcement to withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, Interior Se...
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Monday, January 09, 2017

With Trump Administration coming into power Alaska delegation sees new opportunity to open ANWR.

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Courtesy of the Fairbanks Newsminer : Another chapter has begun in the decades-long battle over drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Re...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Just when I thought Alaska Governor Bill Walker might be one of the good ones.

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Courtesy of the BBC :   Expanding the search for oil is necessary to pay for the damage caused by climate change, the Governor of Alaska...
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Apparently Sarah Palin gave a speech in Texas this morning. You know, same shit different longhorn.

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I love how this Forbes article set up how they were going to share bits of the speech:   It can be challenging to parse Palin’s core me...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

President Obama to designate vast areas of ANWR as wilderness area. Oh that should go over well up here.

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Courtesy of the AP :   President Barack Obama is proposing to designate the vast majority of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Ref...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

So Sarah Palin was on Fox News babbling incoherently about Russia again.

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Stuart Varney, the guy with the British accent that Roger Ailes hired to class up Fox News (Yeah good luck with that!), had Palin on today...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

Congressman Don Young shames ALL Alaskans once again.

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Good God!  What an asshole! Here is the transcript from the Fairbanks NewsMiner : YOUNG: Thank you, Chairman. And thanks for having th...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

Alaska Senator Mark Begich to Sarah Palin: "Someone who quit Alaska is not someone I look for to get Alaska policy decisions on."

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Courtesy of Politico : Sen. Mark Begich is turning a deaf ear to Sarah Palin's demand that he make drilling in the Arctic National Wil...
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Saturday, March 05, 2011

Dueling egos at Fox News as Bill O'Reilly tries desperately to get a specific answer from Sarah Palin who simply refuses to cooperate.

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I cannot believe that O'Reilly refers to Palin as a Fox News "analyst." Clearly their criteria for an analyst is extraordina...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Federal court throws out plan to drill offshore in Alaska.

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A federal appeals court ruled today that the Bush administration did not properly study the environmental impact of expanding oil and gas dr...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Is it possible that Americans are smarter then George Bush, John McCain, and the oil companies give them credit for being?

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The American public is not buying the arguments of President Bush and the oil industry that new drilling will lower gas prices, a new poll f...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Oil companies have access to millions of untapped American acres but cannot forget the one that got away.

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Oil companies and many lawmakers are pressing to open up more U.S. areas for drilling. But the industry is drilling on just a fraction of ar...
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