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[Environmental]
Date Posted:
1/2/2008
5:35:32 pm EST
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Oil Drilling Approved Off Alaskan Shore
Author: Associated Press Source: LA Times
Title: OIL DRILLING APPROVED OFF ALASKAN SHORE
The federal Mineral Management Service gave final approval Wednesday to oil and natural gas development off Alaska's northwest shore, drawing condemnation from environmental groups concerned with the effects on marine mammals.
The MMS said it would hold a lease sale Feb. 6 in Anchorage for bidding on nearly 46,000 square miles of outer continental shelf lands in the Chukchi Sea, the part of the Arctic Ocean that begins north of the Bering Strait and stretches between northwest Alaska and the northern coast of the Russian Far East.
The Chukchi Sea is home to one of two U.S. polar bear populations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is days away from deciding whether polar bears should be declared threatened because of global warming and its effect on the animal's primary habitat, sea ice.
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| (none) | Jan 4th. at 1:59:31 am EST
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Llunmere (Germantown Hills, Illinois) - Email Me
Just because we *CAN* do something doesn't mean we should.
Money can't be eaten. So I guess all that's left after that is other people, right?
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| ... | Jan 2nd. at 5:42:34 pm EST
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
In related news, Exxon is planning to send Valdez 2 to Alaska.
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