One of the main points of Chairman Innis’s message is that we Americans must come to terms with the consequences of our energy consumption.  We need energy, and we can either get our energy from abroad, where we pay top dollar and create no jobs/ infrastructure/ or economic benefit, or we can get our energy from home.    

“Do the right thing”, states Innis, access ANWR and OCS for exploration. 

The lack of basic knowledge of the energy situation in this nation, particularly with regard to facts on supply and demand of oil, is being taken advantage of by environmental groups in campaigning to lock up America’s resources.  Locking up land under the guise that this “protects the environment” only serves to create a shortage of energy and ignores the fact that we have laws in America and take action to protect our environment in any natural resource development situation.  This shortage of energy, Chairman Innis states, equates to higher energy prices which cannot be paid for by many lower income families,. 

A growing economy is only created by use of more energy, not from restrictions on use of, or production of energy.  CORE and Chairman Innis have been touring the nation promoting the domestic production of energy from places like the 10-02 Area of ANWR.  Their message, to protect the rights of minority groups to have access to cheap reliable home grown energy.

CORE made headlines recently with its announcement to sue to the Federal Government if an endangered listing is made on the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).  The Centre for Biological Diversity, amongst other environmental groups, had recently sued the US Fish and Wildlife Service to list the polar bear under claims that it is threatened with extinction due to global warming.  This could mean that driving a car and thus creating greenhouse gases could be directly linked to killing polar bear and thus subject to litigation. 

The State of Alaska as well as the Native organizations in Alaska and Canada have all come out against the ESA listing of the bear stating that the polar bear population is increasing and already heavily over protected.  The science used by the USGS amongst others to promote an ESA listing linked to global warming, is inaccurate and highly speculative, if not out right unprovable.

Mr. Innis and CORE  are championing the cause “to reach out to ordinary people” in America and get them to understand the simple reality of energy situation in this nation. To get Americans to understand what it takes to produce the energy to make their daily lives possible.

“Everyone wants a clean decent environment,…but you cannot do it (environmental potection) to an extreme ignoring other needs, and other values, and that’s what we have to tell ordinary people.  Ordinary people want to do the right thing.” 

For a video of Chairman Innis’s speech on energy see:
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/index.php?page=blog&state=wi

Click here to read the press statement for CORE’s proposal on litigation over the polar bear ESA listing.