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March 21, 2006
Drilling anywhere is risky
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4795866.stm
The link is to the BBC coverage. You might not have known about it . The administration does not want the public to see much of this. Probably effected a black out. Such is the nature of propaganda.
I included the Green Party press release in Extended Entry if you are interested.
It basically calls on washington to cease and desist this oil addictive nightmare and begin the conservation and developement of alternatives.
Of course at the rate the administration is going they will be on trial before the next election. Calling on the administration to begin conservation and esearch may be a moot issue.
Greens Call New Oil Drilling a Global Warming Risk, Urge Congressmembers to do Everything Possible to Thwart ANWR and all New Oil Drilling.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders urged members of Congress who oppose oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to do everything possible to stop enactment of the recent vote to allow drilling.
Greens also called on Democrats and Republicans in Congress to oppose all new drilling, and to focus on conversion from fossil fuel and nuclear energy sources to solar, wind, and other safe and clean energy. The U.S. is the world's largest energy consumer and lags far behind other nations on fuel economy and conservation and implementation of renewable energy.
"Like 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry, many Democrats who voted against drilling in the ANWR support increased drilling in other pristine public lands in Alaska and elsewhere in North America, and favor construction of new pipelines through Canada to the U.S.," said Maya O'Connor, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "Drilling for oil in the ANWR is only part of the problem. The real crisis is our addiction to fossil fuels."
Green Party members noted that new drilling not only threatened local lands and wildlife in Alaska, but also risked accelerating the advance of catastrophic global climate change.
"At a time when we're facing global warming and the approach of a peak in oil production, both of which threaten security and the world economy, it is extremely shortsighted and dangerous to expand drilling operations," said Greg Gerritt, secretary of the Green Party of the United States. "The White House and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress arein the thrall of corporate energy lobbies, and their deference to corporate profits is endangering the entire planet."
MORE INFORMATION
The Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20009.
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
"Kerry, Bush Defer to Lobbies on Global Warming, Fossil Fuels"
Green Party press release, October 25, 2004
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_10_25_04.html
"Energy Security is a Matter of Fuel Efficiency, Not Arctic Drilling"
Defenders of Wildlife
http://www.defenders.org/wildlife/arctic/images/energyfacts.pdf
"Running on empty: The leading energy analysts who foretold Enron's demise have an alarming new claim: The world's major oil companies are almost tapped out"
By Robert Bryce
Salon.com, March 15, 2005
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/15/herold/
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