Here's another issue that's likely to get lost in the war on everything else. While they're bombing the bejesus out of the planet, they are also sneaking in a lot of environmentally unfriendly legislation and nullifying previously enacted protections. When you're emailing your legislators, you might want to mention this.

LA Stone

Editorial in Fall River Herald.


OUR VIEW -- Don’t destroy arctic refuge




Herald News Staff March 14, 2003




The Republican-controlled Senate is getting ever closer to gaining the needed votes to push through a presidential proposal to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Recent reports show that Republicans have obtained 48 votes in favor of drilling one of the most pristine and untouched areas of the country. GOP Senate leaders only need to find two more votes to get the
controversial measure passed and forwarded to the House of Representatives.

While it is true that the massive refuge has many untapped areas of natural gas reserves, it would be a huge mistake to drill into the last frontier.

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