If permitted, ANWR could yield the equivalent of 30 years of US imports from Saudi Arabia.
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Not included in the 38m is the 1.5m acre coastal plain area of ANWR.
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This gridlock over ANWR and offshore drilling, of course, has been with us for decades.
Gov. PALIN: We do differ on opening ANWR and some of the energy issues.
Three square miles out of the ANWR area, which, itself, is about the size of South Carolina.
Labor leaders said oil exploration in the refuge, known as ANWR, would lead to thousands of jobs.
It also takes biodiesel, biofuel, cellulosic ethanol, nuclear power, more drilling in ANWR.
Five million people a year visit the Grand Canyon, whereas 1, 000 visit ANWR.
Along the way McCain might rethink his press-pandering opposition to ANWR oil exploration.
Their survey of the region set in motion the effort to protect what is now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Veteran environmentalist Brock Evans tells Berkes he wishes he could turn to Murie when Congress begins debate on the ANWR next year.
Opening up ANWR, Gore continued, represented bad economic and bad environmental policy.
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Elizabeth, in recent years, any number of proposals to allow drilling in ANWR have passed in the House and died in the Senate.
And what about other measures, such as passing a second economic stimulus package or expanding drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)?
As far as drilling in ANWR, it wouldn't provide immediate relief, and it's questionable how much it would even help in the long run.
In Congress, attention has now shifted to the House in the debate over whether to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, up in Alaska.
In 2005, even with a supportive President and a House and Senate controlled by largely supportive Republicans, ANWR leasing could not find its way into that year's energy bill.
Before Katrina there was a division even among the ranks of Republican congressmen, with 24 of them in August voicing objection to inclusion of the ANWR provision in the budget bill.
After several years and billions of dollars in infrastructure investments by current Alaska producers like ExxonMobil, BP and Anadarko Petroleum, ANWR could produce 1 million barrels of oil a day for 40 years.
Last week, the Senate passed a budget bill that included an ANWR provision, and drilling proponents believe they have never been closer to winning what has been a 20-year fight over this resource.
I'd argue that Treasury bills, gold holdings and an ANWR that is off limits to drilling are examples of dead wealth--that is, stored wealth that could create more wealth if put to proper use.
One of the things Murie said at that hearing will no doubt echo in the coming debate on the future of ANWR: "Beauty is a resource in and of itself, " she told the Congressional committee.
Not to be confused with either the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the desolate 23 million acre NPRA region was first established as an oil reserve for the U.S. Navy in 1923.
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But in the coming debates, they will be missing one of their most compelling and influential advocates: Mardy Murie, the woman whose research helped to create the ANWR, and who has fought for half a century to protect it.
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