WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Senate voted today to ignore public opinion and the public interest, and approve oil exploration in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The 52- 47 vote approved the Senate version of a budget reconciliation bill loaded with controversial measures, including Arctic oil drilling,...
Arctic Oil & Gas Corp. (OTCBB: AOAG), an oil exploration venture company that has filed for the exclusive exploitation, development, marketing and extraction rights to the oil and gas resources of the seafloor and subsurface contained within the "Arctic Claims," is pleased to announce that it has begun trading on...
Sir: It was good to see coverage by Rupert Cornwell (20 March) of the recent vote in US Congress on the development of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Plans by the Bush administration to drill for oil in this protected area was dealt a blow, as Mr Cornwell reported....
WASHINGTON--Aug. 11--When the Bush administration was pressing hard for Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development, the Interior Department issued a 1991 report boosting the chances of finding a field big enough to be economically developed from 19 to 46 percent. ...
A Reuters survey of President Bush's proposal to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ANWR to oil drilling says the plan seems doomed in the Democratic-led Senate. Fifty senators, including five republicans, said they are opposed to drilling in A Reuters survey of President Bush's proposal...
WASHINGTON AP -- Past its first congressional hurdle, President Bush's strategy for fixing the nation's energy problems still faces a difficult road in the Senate, especially over Arctic oil drilling. Still, approval by the House of major chunks of Bush's energy plan, including drilling in an Alaskan...
WASHINGTON -- House leaders late Wednesday abandoned an attempt to push through a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling, fearing it would jeopardize approval of a sweeping budget bill Thursday. They also dropped from the budget document plans to allow states to...
By Michael Paulson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 5--LONDONDERRY, N.H. -- Like any responsible parent with a lot of money, yogurt king Gary Hirshberg is writing a will. But the Stonyfield Farms CEO is going further, writing a second...
