"It's an all-you-can-eat buffet for the oil industry." --Adam Kolton of the Alaska Wilderness League on the GOP budget proposal that would open the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to drilling and give the energy industry $21 billion in subsidies. Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, February 24, 2001"All the stars are aligned this year." --Roger Hererra, executive director of Arctic Power, a group formed to lobby for drilling in the Arctic Refuge. Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2001."It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR. I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is." --George W. Bush press conference, March 29, 2001.Up to Top
