The Week in Review
ending May 19
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President Bush at Nortre Dame.
Sunday, May 20.
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Missed our stories? All the headlines for the week can be found
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Bush releases energy plan
After four months of anticipation, the Bush administration
finally released its national energy policy which calls
for more drilling, more power plants, more nuclear energy,
and more of everything except cutting back on demand.
That didn't prevent President Bush from threatening
the country with more blackouts, more price hikes, and
more misery unless Congress and the public accept and
act on his plan. As expected, not too many environmentalists
or Democrats were happy with his proposals, and a number of
other groups voiced objections.
As for tribes, the plan could definitely spur
economic development. That is, if the federal government
can ensure tribes will be properly compensated for
opening up their natural resource rich lands to
development.
Get the Story:
Cheney gives
private energy preview (5/15)
Dems, GOPs offer
own energy goals (5/16)
Nation in dark
about energy plan (5/16)
Former Interior
Secretary gets excited (5/16)
White House
offers energy policy preview (5/17)
Energy plan has
Cheney signature (5/17)
Bush predicts
doom without his energy policy (5/18)
Inside the Bush
energy policy (5/18)
Bush's energy
policy and Indian Country (5/18)
Nevada
objections lead to nuclear rewrite (5/18)
Arctic drilling battle continues
The entire nation may be considering whether to open the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge up to oil and gas
development but nowhere is the battle more deeply felt
than in Indian Country.
The emotions and disputes ran high as two Alaska
Natives this week debated the issue on national
radio. Inupiat Eskimos who stand to gain
economically support it while Gwich'in Athabaskans
oppose it for fear it will damage the sacred
caribou herd and neither side is convinced the
other is right.
Get the Story:
Improved
drilling technology cited (5/15)
Fired mapmaker
still fired (5/17)
Alaska Natives
square off over Arctic drilling (5/18)
more stories
There's still more to read in the recap
of the top stories.
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