Alaska refuge drilling may ride on military funding bill

  • 19/12/2000

The debate over drilling for oil in the Alaskan arctic is heating up in the aftermath of last week's terrorist attack. In an effort to turn drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) into a national security issue, Senator James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, filed an amendment that proposes attaching the entire ANWR drilling bill to a defense authorization bill scheduled for debate on Friday.