Alaska House earmarks $3.7 million for ANWR lobbying!!!

[NVMojo]

these jerks are desperate! Must be worried about the loss of their gravytrain subsidies up there from the current pipeline ....

who is Pac/West? Anyone heard of them?

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska House on Monday approved spending $3.7 million to lobby Congress for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

State representatives added the money to a supplemental spending bill nearly a week after U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, said this is a must-pass year for ANWR drilling. If ANWR fails to pass Congress this year, the oil companies may withdraw their support, Stevens told the Legislature.

Of the appropriation, which also must be approved by the Senate, $3 million would go to Pac/West Communications, a public-relations firm from Wilsonville, Ore.

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