Update: Arctic Drilling Struck From House Bill
Friends of Animals would like to thank all of our active supporters who responded to the call to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Your calls and letters have reached Congress at a pivotal time —when language in the proposed budget legislation would have allowed oil drilling and exploration in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge.
In the face of pressure from the White House and the influence of the major oil interests, enough lawmakers chose to listen to environmental concerns. Late last night (9 November 2005), the House of Representatives removed the provision, in order to keep the budget bill alive.
The bill will now make its way through a conference committee which includes members of both the House and the Senate. This committee will work out any differences between their two versions of the legislation. The Senate version still carries a provision to allow drilling in the Refuge, so problematic language could be reinstated before the bill is put before the entire Congress for its final vote.
So please keep encouraging your legislators to oppose any budget bill if it allows drilling in the Arctic Refuge.
You can locate your Senators and Representatives through http://www.congress.org and write to them at:
The Honorable __
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121
The Honorable __
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Congressional Switchboard 202-224-3121
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On November 14, 2005, Sheldon Fuller wrote:
You guys are freaks! But then again, maybe you all walk, so keep gloating, when you are paying $10.00 a gallon to heat your homes, maybe you will think of us in a different light up here in the North Country.
Sheldon Fuller
Lifelong Alaskan
On November 14, 2005, Bob Orabona wrote:
It sounds like Sheldon is projecting his own inadequencies and rage onto others — again.
Not even the President or his oil-buddies are promising lower fuel prices from drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Fortunately, higher energy prices lead to more conservation and faster development of alternative sources of energy, and that means less pollution and development, smaller cars and houses. This is not a bad thing. The needless development of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge is.
Bob Orabona
Friends of Animals