Obama plans to block ANWR development -Overreactive Republicans Irate with disreguard for logic!

The Interior Department said in a statement emailed about 7 a.m. Alaska time Sunday that it would release a conservation plan for the refuge that seeks to designate 12.3 million additional acres within the refuge as wilderness. That’s on top of the already 7 million acres that are designated as wilderness within the refuge, a 19-million-acre-plus block of land in Alaska’s northeast corner.

In a video, Obama said he was “proud” that the Interior Department was putting forward the new plan.

“And I’m going to be calling on Congress to make sure that they take it one step further, designating it as a wilderness so that we can make sure that this amazing wonder is preserved for future generations,” Obama said in the video, where he appeared to be speaking from Air Force One.

“If Congress chooses to act, it would be the largest ever wilderness designation since Congress passed the visionary Wilderness Act over 50 years ago,” the Interior Department said.

Wilderness designations require congressional approval under the Wilderness Act, a Lyndon Johnson-era law that has proved extremely popular nationwide, though many of the designations have been fought locally as land and water lock-ups. In designated wilderness areas, road-making and other developments are usually banned, as are most motorized vehicles. Hunting and fishing are allowed, and in some wilderness areas, fixed-wing aircraft and motor boats can be used. In Alaska, snow machines and other motorized vehicles are allowed in wilderness areas if local residents had used them for “traditional activities.”

Which part of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge don't these people understand? Or the fact that this is federal land, not state land.

But as expected, the nutters come out to spout nonsensical diatribes...


Rep. Don Young called the plan “callously planned and politically motivated” and “akin to spitting in our faces and telling us it’s raining outside.” He also accused the Obama administration of capitulating to “the most extreme environmentalist elements.”

“What’s coming is a stunning attack on our sovereignty and our ability to develop a strong economy that allows us, our children and our grandchildren to thrive,” said Sen. Murkowski


Freshman U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan called the announcement part of the Obama administration’s “war on Alaska families.”
“It is just one more example of President Obama thumbing his nose at the citizens of a sovereign state -- and will put Alaska and America’s energy security in serious jeopardy.”


Most comments from Alaskans are in support of Obama.

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