Drilling key to defense strategy - February 24, 2002

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryFebruary 2002

Vol. 7, No. 8

Week of February 24, 2002

Drilling key to defense strategy

by The Associated Press

President George W. Bush’s proposal to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling is key to the nation’s defense strategy, Interior Secretary Gale Norton said earlier this month in Englewood, Colo.

Norton said drilling on 2,000 acres of the reserve could produce 20 percent of domestic energy, which is needed considering the $12 million a day spent for oil from Iraq, a country that has tried to amass chemical weapons.

“It’s time to start producing that energy in the United States of America,” Norton told 300 members of the Lincoln Club of Colorado, one of the state’s largest Republican groups.

Norton said Bush’s energy plan is supported by a unique coalition of labor leaders, activists and other traditionally Democratic constituents, and could create up to 700,000 new jobs.

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