That was later expanded to 19 million acres and renamed the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1980.
Romney hit McCain for his opposition to drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
"When America set aside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, we called it a 'refuge' for a reason, " he said.
Their survey of the region set in motion the effort to protect what is now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
To reduce America's dependence on foreign sources of oil, Huckabee would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the continental shelves to drilling.
The study area extends from the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska on the west and through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the east.
He said the federal government should provide incentives to states that permit offshore exploration, but he is against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
He's been a champion of Native Alaskans and like almost all Alaskan politicians he favors drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The plan has been criticized for tilting toward fossil fuel production, including a push to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
In an interview on NBC's "Meet The Press, " Daschle said the Bush administration's plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration is dead.
Right now we have no presidential candidate who is skeptical of global warming, willing to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and who speaks for a strong dollar.
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.
Bush has proposed drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as a solution, but Younts thinks the United States should look elsewhere to solve the problem.
To boost domestic oil supply, Mr McCain wants to lift the long-standing ban on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts (although, unlike Sarah Palin, he would keep the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off-limits).
Republicans also want to legalize drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and allow the processing of oil shale on public lands in the West -- two actions Democrats also oppose.
Though an Obama administration won't try to lift the ban on drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the next president will allow the removal of more and more barriers to offshore drilling.
None of the three presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain opposes the bad policies that have led to the shortages, and none is skeptical of global warming or willing to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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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The Department of the Interior figures that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and untapped parcels along both coasts and the Gulf of Mexico hold, all told, maybe 34 billion barrels of oil and 72 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Congressional Quarterly reported that John voted with Bush 70 percent of the time, including for President Bush's tax cut, for the ban on partial-birth abortions, for barring gays in the Boy Scouts and for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The main obstacles cited by the energy executives surveyed speak for themselves: opposition to expanded drilling in places such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (cited by 33%), environmental concerns (16%) and a lack of investment in energy due to low commodity prices (14%).
The 107th Congress adjourned last week without approving oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska but Republican leaders promise to make the drilling proposal a top priority come January, when the 108th Congress will convene with a GOP majority in both the House and Senate.
By concentrating on areas where considerable progress is possible (rather than on such neuralgic issues as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or increased CAFE fuel-efficiency standards), America - and in particular its gas-guzzling transportation sector - could be made significantly less reliant on oil supplied by unstable or hostile regimes.
In addition to pushing for access to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and oil reserves off the east and west coasts, however, some industry reps are also rehashing the argument that the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) presents an opportunity further to secure American oil by "locking in" drilling rights in our Arctic continental shelf.
Congress set up the giant Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, about the size of South Carolina, in 1980.
All it took was the threat of new offshore and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling to pop the speculative bubble.
The administration also wants to encourage exploration for new stores of oil and gas -- most notably in the off-limits Arctic National Wildlife refuge.
The administration also wants to encourage the growth of the nuclear power industry and exploration of new stores of coal, oil and natural gas -- notably in the now off-limits Arctic National Wildlife refuge.
The administration wants to open up part of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling, something Kerry opposes.
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