Teapot Dome Redivivus: How Clinton and Gore Opened the Alaskan Arctic to Oil Drilling
Al Gore waddled forth to condemn Biden's approval of the mammoth Willow Oil Project on the North Slope, calling it, "recklessly irresponsible." Gore makes a compelling case. There's just one problem. It was his own administration which first opened the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to drilling. Both Gore and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt lent their environmental credentials (such as they were) to drilling on the very tundra where Conoco-Phillips now plans to drill 200 oil wells. Here’s how it happened. More
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