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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (3516)	10/24/2000 1:06:18 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

I didn't see Bush sr. chastised by the democrats for having no energy policy when that happened.

To: average joe who wrote (3516)	10/24/2000 1:27:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 10042

'Model' Alaska Oil Field Ready NewsMax.com Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2000 Touted as state-of-the-art technology for pumping petroleum from environmentally sensitive Alaska, a billion-dollar project is preparing to recover 429 million barrels. It has a keen relevance to the 2000 presidential election campaign, during which the two major candidates have been sharply at odds over whether Alaska's North Slope should be opened to further oil drilling. The Republican nominee, George W. Bush, contends the Clinton-Gore administration has left the United States devoid of a viable energy program. He urges more Alaskan oil exploration and production as a key way of making the country less dependent on foreign oil. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore, is opposed to extracting more oil from Alaska. He argues that it would bring about severe environmental damage to the land and wildlife in the nation's northernmost state. But Bush counters that modern technology now makes it possible to extract oil without ruining the environment. According to Reuters news service: The new project in Alaska, known as the Alpine field, is being held out as just such a model example of modern, low-impact oil drilling. Along the mouth of the Colville River, about 30 miles west of existing infrastructure in the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay-Kuparuk complex, it is set to begin production in mid-November. Separated by open tundra from existing fields, its surface transportation from the outside is limited to temporary ice roads that disappear in the summer. Other environmental impacts have been minimized by spacing the wells close together and by using enhanced-recovery techniques early in the field's life. Just the same, environmentalists remain wary of the cumulative effect on the ecology of additional oil fields along Alaska's Arctic coastline. And they warn of possible impacts on the Colville River delta, an area critical for migratory water fowl and wildlife. Originally due to begin pumping June 1, the Alpine field project has twice been postponed by the operator, Phillips Alaska Petroleum, due to what it describes as minor delays. The field was acquired from its discoverer, Arco Alaska Inc., when Phillips Petroleum Co. bought out Atlantic Richfield's Alaska assets earlier this year as part of the BP-Arco merger. newsmax.com