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Pete Domenici: If ANWR was the size of this chart, the total footprint of any development there would be smaller than the box below.…

On the recordMarch 19, 2003
If ANWR was the size of this chart, the total footprint of any development there would be smaller than the box below. ANWR is as big as this chart. We have done it to scale, all of that blue. Now, regardless of what is said about what you are going to do to ANWR, let me submit to you that you are going to do it on this little piece, I say to the chairman. Look at this. Can you see it? Maybe I can show the chairman of the Budget Committee. Do you see that little piece there? I don't think you can even see it, that little piece. That is where ANWR is going to have a footprint to produce oil for America. Can you imagine we are here arguing about whether or not we ought to take this tiny little piece? Here it is. Let me show it to you again. Do you see this, Mr. Chairman? I don't think you can see it from there. That is the size of the footprint. And the whole chart is the size of ANWR.
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Pete Domenici

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Discussing the size and impact of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

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