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Article: Spill fuels refuge battle // Oil project foes cite wildlife peril
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 28, 1989
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WASHINGTON The massive oil spill threatening to cause an
ecological disaster in Alaska's Prince William Sound is expected to
give ammunition to environmentalists fighting to keep oil developers
out of a pristine arctic wildlife refuge.
Congress must approve oil exploration in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge, the country's largest remaining wilderness area,
where the petroleum industry believes much oil is hidden.
President Bush endorsed oil drilling along a 1.5 million acre
coastal strip of the refuge in northeastern Alaska if it can be done
within environmental guidelines, and legislation allowing exploration
passed a Senate committee earlier this month.
But aides to senators on ...