03/08/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"In Alaska, we are very concerned with the President's decision to decommission another WHEC in the fiscal year 2012 budget."
"oil wells to be drilled from the western Alaska state-owned lands, outside of the refuge's boundary, or from state waters to the north, and still to be able to tap oil and gas deposits located between..."
"This is just another in a long line of drill bills for the Arctic refuge."
"We are kind of on the verge of trying to understand the resource that would be in these residual oil zones."