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Former Alaska State Senator Al Adams Favors Oil Development

Editor's Note: The following editorial written by Alaska State Senator Al Adams ran in the Inuvik Drum, a Northern Canadian newspaper, on December 18, 1997. Thank you for running the editorial, "Time to ignore the 1002 rhetoric." I do believe in the long run, sound public policy on oil development in the coastal plain will prevail.
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Former North Slope Borough Mayor Benjamin P. Nageak on ANWR Development

The Inupiat people of the North Slope have called the Arctic their home for thousands of years. Long before the riches of this land and its seas were "discovered" by outside cultures, the Inupiat built a world that centered on their interdependence with the vast and diverse animal life found in their seas, skies and land.
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Arctic Slope Regional Corporation on Development of ANWR

The Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is the most promising and prospective area for commercial oil and gas development in the United States today. Notwithstanding a 1987 recommendation from the Secretary of the Interior that the ANWR Coastal Plain should be made available for full oil and gas leasing, exploration and development, the Congress of the United States has failed to take action to permit these activities in the Coastal Plain. Since the Secretary's recommendation in 1987, the State of Alaska has advocated consistently that the Congress should enact legislation to open the Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing, exploration and development