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