Bush Administration Opens Arctic Lands for Drilling

Jan. 11, 2006 - A vast, roadless region of Arctic Alaska, an important caribou and bird-nesting area that also may hold some of the nation's richest oil deposits, was opened to oil drilling Wednesday over the bitter objections of environmentalists.

The Bush administration opened up hundreds of thousands of acres around Teshekpuk Lake, on Alaska's North Slope, to oil drilling. The wetlands around the 315-acre lake are popular Inupiat hunting and fishing grounds and are widely considered among the most vital in the Arctic for molting geese.

Read the rest of the story at The Seattle Times.

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