Article: The Oil Industry's Myth of Environmentally Safe Drilling in Alaska

The Alaska Wilderness League issued the following news release:

As top executives with the world's oil industry testify before the House Committee on Natural Resources today in their continued effort to greatly expand offshore drilling across the U.S. and in America's Arctic, we are providing you with a litany of facts that illustrate Big Oil's dismal track record in Alaska and on Saklahin Island in Russia.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has taken the positive step of extending the review process for the draft five-year plan for 2010-2015, released in the waning days of the Bush tenure, that expands the Arctic Ocean's leasing area by 76 percent - to 127.6 million acres. As a result, the ...

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