Thursday, October 20, 2005
Senate panel OKs drilling in arctic refuge
WASHINGTON - The Senate Energy Committee voted Wednesday to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling as part of a broad budget bill to fund the federal government.
Link: Full Article from MSNBC
"We can never have enough of nature."
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
Alaska image courtesy of US Fish & Wildlife Service