Ken Salazar actually said...

It was precisely because of concerns related to the Arctic area, in the Beaufort and in the Chukchi Seas, that we ended up concluding that we would cancel 5 proposed lease sales.

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Salazar explains the cancellation of lease sales due to ecological concerns in Arctic regions.

05/17/2010

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