Rhetoric VS. Reality
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Interior to study new round of oil, gas leases in Alaska
April 13, 2010
Anchorage Daily News
ERIKA BOLSTAD
WASHINGTON -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday that his department will spend the next several months determining what it needs to know to make good decisions about future oil and gas leasing in the offshore Arctic.
Between now and Oct. 1, federal scientists will be reviewing what they already know about the Beaufort and Chukchi seas -- as well as looking for what gaps remain in scientific knowledge of the region, and what it will take to close them.