drilling in alaska
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- monkeyshine
...a certain REM song comes to mind.
- madirish0
lol
nice site
- mpfree0
...a certain REM song comes to mind.
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monkeyshine
(Jan 10 07, 08:10)Shiney Happy People perhaps?
- monkeyshine0
Shiney Happy People perhaps?
mpfree
(Jan 10 07, 10:42)How'd you guess?
- madirish0
..a certain REM song comes to mind.
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monkeyshine
(Jan 10 07, 08:10)Shiney Happy People perhaps?
mpfree
(Jan 10 07, 10:42)and you say you don't start shit...
- mpfree0
It is also one of the wealthiest and most racially diverse states. Purchased from Russia on April 16, 1867.
Come on, we gotta do something with that purchase. It's all about return on investment.
Time for that place to start paying.
:P
- Jaline0
I think we should take over Alaska. I'm sure our people are friends with their people now.
- M0NEYCIDE0
'it's the end of the polar bears, and crabs as we know them...'
- Jaline0
Here's the article:
--------------------------------...President Bush lifted the drilling ban Tuesday for Alaska's Bristol Bay, clearing the way for the Interior Department to open the fish-rich waters to oil and natural gas development.
Alaska officials as well as local communities had asked for the ban to be lifted, but environmentalists have warned against drilling in the bay, which is also a major fishing area for salmon, crab and cod.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said one or two lease sales in about 5.6 million acres of Bristol Bay will be considered for leasing in the department's upcoming five-year 2007-12 lease plan.
Separately, Bush lifted a drilling moratorium in an area of the central Gulf of Mexico known as Lease Area 181, making that area available to drilling.
The Gulf waters acted upon by the president is a small part of a much larger 8.2 million acres that were approved for oil and gas development by Congress last month in one of its last acts before adjournment.
"There will be significant opportunities for study and public comment before any oil and gas development could take place in these areas," said Kempthorne.
The Bristol Bay waters were set aside for protection by Congress 1990, but the ban was lifted in 2003 at the request of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who argued that the area's oil and natural gas could be developed while still protecting the fisheries.
But a separate presidential drilling ban was not to expire until 2012.
- mpfree0
..a certain REM song comes to mind.
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monkeyshine
(Jan 10 07, 08:10)Shiney Happy People perhaps?
mpfree
(Jan 10 07, 10:42)and you say you don't start shit...
madirish
(Jan 10 07, 10:43)*cough
in case you haven't noticed this thread was started by someone else
- mpfree0
I think we should take over Alaska. I'm sure our people are friends with their people now.
Jaline
(Jan 10 07, 10:47)can't.
they like their baby seals.
- monkeyshine0
'it's the end of the polar bears, and crabs as we know them...and mpfree feels fine'
M0NEYCIDE
(Jan 10 07, 10:47)
- mpfree0
'it's the end of the polar bears, and crabs as we know them...and mpfree feels fine'
M0NEYCIDE
(Jan 10 07, 10:47)
monkeyshine
(Jan 10 07, 10:50)you forgot the baby seals
:(
- mrdobolina0
imagine that, jagx is for drilling in alaska.
- Crouwel0
I think we should take over Alaska. I'm sure our people are friends with their people now.
Jaline
(Jan 10 07, 10:47)can't.
they like their baby seals.
mpfree
(Jan 10 07, 10:50)well whatever silly shit mp3 says, this was actaully funny and sort of spot on.
- mpfree0
;)
- Witt0
sad news as usual.
- mrdobolina0
the average tom, dick or hank will see absolutely no benefit from drilling in ANWAR.
how about holding on to that resource?
- Seff0
what about an average uncle tom
- mrdobolina0
that motherfucker is gonna laugh all the way to the bank, aferwards changing his name to Big Bank Hank.
- mpfree0
sad news as usual.
Witt
(Jan 10 07, 14:18)wha does that mean? no one ever reports good news do they? if they do it's rare