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Monday, November 17, 2003

Subsistence hunters are opposing plans to expand drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

Inupiat hunters and fishermen don't want an 800,000-acre area disturbed by development. They say the Bureau of Land Management should uphold habitat protections that were developed in 1998.

BLM is proposing to lift some of the restrictions to increase domestic oil production.

Get the Story:
Plan to expand oil exploration meets resistance on Slope (The Anchorage Daily News 11/17)

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