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 | | From: | William A. Bacon | | Subject: | [PropagandaMatrix.com] Alaska protected area to be open for drilling | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:43:26 -0500 |
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Subject: [PropagandaMatrix.com] Alaska protected area to be open for
drilling
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/58053.php
Alaska protected area to be open for drilling
Government cites need for energy from North Slope
By H. Josef Hebert
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Citing a need for domestic energy, the
government plans to open for exploratory drilling
thousands of acres on Alaska's North Slope that have
been protected for decades because of migratory birds
and caribou.
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, which was
created in 1923 specifically to have access to oil if
needed, is not to be confused with the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge farther to the east, which has been
the focus of intense debate in Congress over oil
development.
The Bureau of Land Management has concluded that oil
and gas exploration in the northeastern corner of the
NPRA can be conducted with "minimal impact" on the
area's wildlife.
While most of the 22 million-acre reserve is open to
oil development, its lake-pocked northeastern corner
has been fenced off since the Reagan administration
because of environmental concerns. That area is viewed
as having the highest oil and gas potential within the
reserve.
The Fish and Wildlife Service, which like the BLM is
part of the Interior Department, has said the area
around Lake Teshekpuk in the northeast corner of the
NPRA is among the most important molting areas in the
entire Arctic for wild geese. Caribou herds use it for
calving and relief from insects.
The BLM, however, has concluded that more than 400,000
acres surrounding Lake Teshekpuk should be opened for
exploratory drilling with restrictions. The government
estimates the area contains about 2 billion barrels of
economically recoverable oil and 3.5 trillion cubic
feet of natural gas.
Henri Bisson, the BLM's Alaska director, outlined the
planned action in a speech posted Friday on the
agency's Web site, predicting that the decision will
prompt strong criticism from environmental activists
and a likely lawsuit.
"I have been told flat out ... to expect an all-out
fight to the finish to keep this from happening,"
Bisson said in the speech, given earlier this week to
a business group in Anchorage, according to The
Anchorage Daily News.
Bisson called the decision to open the northeastern
corner "one of the most difficult projects that we
have attempted yet at BLM" but said the reason was
simple: "The country needs access to its oil and gas
resources and this area is a petroleum reserve."
A broad section of environmentalists and
conservationists, from the Wilderness Society to Ducks
Unlimited, have urged continued protection of the lake
region, noting that almost all of the NPRA already is
available to oil companies.
"You do need to have oil and gas development in the
NPRA, but not on every single acre," said Eleanor
Huffins of the Wilderness Society in Alaska. She said
environmentalists have little confidence that the
government restrictions will be protective.
"When industry asks for exemptions they give it to
them," she said in a telephone interview from
Anchorage.
Bisson said the development plan would identify seven
lease tracts, of 46,000 to 59,000 acres each, north of
Teshekpuk Lake, including 217,000 acres of key habitat
for waterfowl. Exploratory leases also will be made
available for 157,000 acres east and south of the
lake, the area used by caribou.
He said ice roads, graveled drilling pads and other
facilities would be limited to 300 acres excluding
pipelines, and exploration would be restricted to
winter months, resulting "in minimal impact to the
wildlife resources that live in this area."
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