Huge swath of Arctic Alaska to new oil development

  • 05/12/1997

Despite concerns voiced by the Clinton Administration about global warming, Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbit will announce the opening of approximately 20 percent of Alaska'a National Petroleum Reserve to new oil exploration. The entire reserve encompasses a vast area of rolling foothills, wild rivers and extensive coastal plain wetlands that provide habitats for wildfowl, caribou, Arctic peregrine falcons and other wildlife.