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To: Edwin S. Fujinaka who wrote (2605)	4/22/2001 10:48:25 PM
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Apparently the Energy Panel will not make specific drilling site recommendations. I would hope that they decide to make a comprehensive survey of all potential sources of energy and then permit every site to be evaluated on it's merits considering all of the tradeoffs, including prominently the environmental risks and considerations. In terms of potential, the Coastal Petroleum leases might be high on the list if not number one. I don't believe there is any other site in North America where anyone is suggesting there may be "tens of billions of barrels". Perhaps there are no sites on the planet with this sort of untapped potential!!! dailynews.yahoo.com Sunday April 22 4:49 PM ET Panel Won't Recommend Drilling in ANWR - Whitman By Lori Santos WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House energy task force will not specifically cite drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a vital option for easing U.S. energy shortages, EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman said on Sunday. In a television interview and subsequent telephone conversation with Reuters, Whitman said the task force, headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, will not make specific recommendations on where to drill. Whitman, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency and member of the panel that has been studying options to present to President Bush, told CBS' ``Face the Nation'' that one of the more controversial options, the ANWR, would not be cited in the upcoming report as a potential drilling site. ``As far as our report goes, we didn't specifically say you must drill in ANWR. We didn't recommend that to the president,'' Whitman told CBS. In an interview later, the EPA chief told Reuters she was not trying to suggest the administration was taking the refuge off the table for drilling. Not Suggesting Specific Areas For Drilling Bush has made drilling in the coastal plain of the refuge a central part of his long-term solution to curing America's energy shortages. But the idea has little appeal in Congress and Bush faces widespread opposition from environmentalists who cite the refuge as a pristine home to teeming herds of caribou and other wildlife. Whitman said the task force would not be suggesting specific locales for drilling or other steps needed to combat the nation's shortages. ``We aren't specifically saying you should or should not'' drill in specific locations, Whitman said. ``We haven't taken anything off the table or put anything on.'' More specific suggestions regarding drilling, additional energy sources as well as conservation efforts, could be made later, she added. Whitman previously had noted that ANWR could not be drilled without congressional support, which is unlikely with most Democrats and some Republicans opposed to drilling in the refuge, and her televised remarks added confusion to the situation. Time magazine also reported on Sunday that senior Bush adviser Karl Rove had told a Republican consultant that Bush would not push for drilling in ANWR. Asked about the report, Interior Secretary Gale Norton told CNN she had spoken with Rove on Sunday morning and been assured ''he still believes that it is something that we should push forward with.'' Bush has made opening more federal lands to oil and gas exploration, including the Arctic refuge in northeast Alaska, a core feature of his energy agenda. The Cabinet-level panel, appointed on Jan. 29, is expected to report by mid-May. Bush asked for a plan to fight high energy prices and reduce dependence on foreign oil, to encourage development of pipelines and power-generating capacity and to find ways to cope with California's electricity supply shortage. Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry has vowed to block or filibuster any effort to drill in the Alaska refuge. ``I think it's bad energy policy and bad environmental policy,'' Kerry told ABC's ``This Week.'' Congressional Republican leaders have omitted from their pending 2002 budget resolutions any revenues from drilling in ANWR, seeking to avoid a fight. But Norton defended the proposal. ``That's an area that has been for decades designated as a place where we might want to have oil production at some point. And so it's a question that needs to be addressed by Congress,'' Norton told ABC.