TITLE

Gas Price Rise Heightens Threat Facing Arctic Refuge

PUB. DATE

July 2000

SOURCE

Wilderness Society's Quarterly Newsletter;Summer2000, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p2

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on Senator Frank Murkowski's call for oil drilling projects in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Response to high gas prices; Goal of easing the United States' (U.S.) reliance on foreign oil sources; BP-Amoco's efforts to convince U.S. Congress to allow Arctic Refuge drilling; Wilderness Society's call for a bill that would add Coastal Plain to the National Wilderness Preservation System.

ACCESSION #

3610561

Tags: PETROLEUM -- Prospecting;  MURKOWSKI, Frank H., 1933-;  LEGISLATORS -- United States;  NATURE conservation;  WILDERNESS Society (U.S.);  ARCTIC National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska)

 

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