[pf] "Natural gas needed; therefore drilling needed"- Bush. Untrue.

· I've just added an item to my env. news page at:
http://davd.tripod.com/APRR-010415.html#10379 , which says:

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  Bush stance on Alaska refuge's natural gas puzzles some.

Every day, oil producers on Alaska's North Slope pump up about 8 million
cubic feet of natural gas, a by-product of oil production, and every day
they re-inject the gas back into the Earth. 
 
So why has President George W. Bush repeatedly argued, as he did in a
recent White House news conference, that oil companies need access to the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in northeast Alaska so they can find
yet more _natural_gas_?

The push to open up the refuge to obtain natural gas has left industry
experts in Alaska puzzled.

"I'm not sure what he means. Clearly there's lots of stranded gas in the
Arctic, both in Alaska and in Canada. We've got lots of it, and it's not
going anywhere right now," said Chuck Logsdon, chief petroleum economist
for the state of Alaska. "Heck, we've got a whole bunch of it at Prudhoe
Bay that we want to sell."

... the Prudhoe Bay field, where oil companies have been pumping oil since
1977. It is the nation's largest known but untapped gas resource ...
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Gov. Knowles and many other officials have endorsed a proposed overland
pipeline that would follow the route of the Alaska Highway through western
Canada to deliver gas to markets in the U.S Midwest. ...estimated ... (the
largest of its kind in the world) at $10 billion.

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· Is Bush being pressured, being lied-to, or: he just doesn't care?

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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