ANWR, ANWR, ANWR

[kerrygoddess]

A few notes on ANWR --

John Kerry will filibuster if neccessary - but I am told they feel they can win without it.

I have three ANWR posts on the Dem Daily of interest:

1)As ANWR Vote Moves to Senate, 5 Generals Urge Senate to Drop ANWR from Defense Bill (Letter via a little bird) - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1447

2)Call Your Senators NOW To Save The Arctic Refuge!
The NRDC has an Action Alert on their homepage regarding the vote in the Senate on the Defense Bill which includes language for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The House passed its version of this measure early Monday and the Senate could vote at any time. See my post below, on the letter from 5 retired generals urging the Senate to drop ANWR from the Defense Bill.

Please call your senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to remove Arctic drilling from the Defense Appropriations bill.

LINKS - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1449

3)Republican House ANWR Proponents Declare Victory
December 19th, 2005
In a press release from the House Committee on Resources, Committee leader Richard Pombo declared victory today on the passing of ANWR drilling provision in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act. It is now up to the Senate to stop this madness.

LINKS to House Plans and LCV Action Alert - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1452

[Sal316]

1. I was watching this last night and.......

Kucinich asked Duncan Hunter flat out if ANWAR was in the bill. Hunter said no, right on the House floor.

Am I the only one who saw this?

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

2. I know, I know, I know!! They want to do it just cause they know

that Dems, environmentalists treasure it.

It would be like a trophy to those sniveling a'holes.

:puke:

[ginnyinWI]

3. The Dems in the Senate are willing to fight this

I just finished watching a press conference on Cspan. You should have heard Lieberman--he's saying to the Republicans the equivalent of, "You shall not pass!!".

He and the others won't let this go, because it sets a dangerous precident--that any time a party wants a pet project, they can just attach it to the defense appropriations and nobody will have the guts to vote against it. Well the Dems do have the guts this time, and are planning a filibuster if they need it.

Other Senators there: Cantwell, Feinstein, Kerry, Lautenberg.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

5. Extellent!!

[NVMojo]

4. Just got this from the House, keep in mind this is with Repuke spin:

House Unlocks ANWR Energy Supplies
20-year debate nears historic conclusion
December 19, 2005

Washington, DC - Today the House passed legislation authorizing safe energy production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) by a vote of 308-106 as part of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act. Energy development will take place on just 2000 acres of ANWR's 1.5 million acre coastal plain, under the strongest environmental safeguards in the world.

"This vote represents the largest potential increase of American energy supplies - and the biggest step toward energy independence - Congress has approved since 1973 when it passed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Act," said Resources Committee Chairman Richard W. Pombo (R-CA). "When the Senate passes this bill, a nearly 20-year debate will be brought to a close and we will finally get to the business of meeting our energy demands with more American supplies. When it comes to our economy, our national security and families facing skyrocketing energy prices, this is unquestionably the right thing to do."

In addition to increasing U.S. energy security and independence, ANWR energy production will create new federal revenues to cut the federal deficit, to fund recovery efforts in Gulf Coast states devastated by recent hurricanes and to provide home heating assistance to low-income families.

"Energy production in ANWR should also dispel, once and for all, the myth that we can only develop America's energy resources at the expense of our environment," Pombo continued. "Innovative engineering and advanced 21st century technology make energy production and environmental protection go hand-in-hand in the United States. Today the House embraced that fact. We can, we must and we will have both in ANWR."

This is also a historic vote for the Inupiat Eskimo people of Alaska, who have inhabited ANWR's northern slope for generations, long before Congress claimed it as a wildlife refuge. This legislation will finally allow them to produce energy on the lands they were given as part of their aboriginal settlement with the U.S. government and use the proceeds to provide themselves a better quality of life.

http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/issues/emr/report/history.htm#eskimo

ANWR Facts & Figures:

The mean estimate of recoverable oil from ANWR's northern coastal plain is 10.4 billion barrels.
At today's energy prices, recovering this massive supply represents a $650 Billion investment in American energy, American jobs and strong economic growth.
Experts estimate that safe energy development in ANWR will lead to the creation of 250,000 to 1 million good jobs in America. That is why ANWR-energy is supported by American labor organizations such as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the International Union of Operating Engineers, the Laborers International Union of North America, the AFL-CIO -- Building Trades Department, the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters, the Seafarers International Union and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
America's total proven energy reserves stand at 21 billion barrels. That means ANWR's 10.4 billion barrels will increase the total U.S. proven reserves by nearly 50 percent.
At peak production, ANWR could deliver the nation as much as 1.5 million barrels of oil per day. That is an amount equal the entire world's daily excess supply, the daily American production we lost in the Gulf due to the recent hurricanes and roughly the amount we import from Saudi Arabia every day.
Read about the tremendous direct and indirect benefits of safe energy production on just 2000 acres of ANWR's northern coastal plain. http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/Press/releases/2005/1214letter.htm

The Complete Case for ANWR Energy

http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/issues/emr/anwrrpt.htm

[kerrygoddess]

6. That's in my #3 on the list

Check out that post because there is some scarey stuff there in the links.

[Bumblebee]

7. Glad to know they have a plan.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

8. My email to my Senator on ANWR

Please vote against, help to remove the provision for drilling in ANWR from the Defense bill.

While it may not allow a significant acreage to be drilled in, the fact that the acres need not be contiguous ensures the destruction of much more land as wilderness.

This is our last unspoiled wilderness. As people from the great state of Arizona, we know the value of nature, of wilderness, of retaining our connection to the land.

Please protect ANWR, which doesn't have enough oil to have any major impact on our oil supply and the geopolitical issues involved with it.

[Catchawave]

9. George Will ?

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will1.asp

Creepers-Freepers !

[texpatriot2004]

10. I thought drilling in ANWR was killed a couple of weeks ago? Or

was that in the house and now it's in the Senate?

[DrGonzoLives]

11. This is no longer about energy for the GOP

Now it is about "proving a point," simply about trying to win something. They could care less about jobs or oil, they just want to defeat the enivronmentalists at something, at the fact that they can't is something that should be seriously exploited.

[donkeyotay]

12. Alaskan pork and discipline

Back when the Democrats were dragging this reluctant president to war in Iraq, the GOP mob used to love to talk about discipline and making people (and countries) pay for opposing them.

Sick ratbastards. It's supposed to be politics not bondage.