Thursday, December 22, 2005

Bye-Bye Ted Stevens, You Old Fool

A real person's voice is so much more lucid than the rantings of Stevens, a ReThug who only cares about money, oil money. Thank your Ms. Gemmill for your eloquent words about a NATIONAL treasure.

"But Alaska Natives like Gemmill living just south of ANWR fear that opening even the coastal plain to drilling would hurt the Porcupine caribou herd they depend on for their subsistence lifestyle.

Arctic Village, population 146, lies on the southern border of the refuge, far from the proposed drilling sites. But, Gemmill said, the roaming caribou have gone to the coastal plain for thousands of years to calve, and would be disrupted by drilling.

She acknowledges that the fight over ANWR will continue, as it already has for decades. However, she is optimistic the outcome will be the same.

'I think as long as the environmentalists and the Gwich'in keep up the work that they're doing to keep it closed, I think it will just hopefully remain closed,' she said."

Emphasis added.

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