Palin and Drilling in ANWR
Sarah Palin has always been in favor of initiating drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a nearly 20 million acre area in northeast Alaska that is believed to contain a large amount of crude oil. In the Senate, John McCain has voted against allowing a drilling program in ANWR, but on the campaign trail in 2008 has said that he’d be willing to “go back and look at it again.” In a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, Palin explained her stance:
Sean Hannity: You know, why then why then would you support drilling in Alaska? Why would that be a good thing? Why would you want to do that?
Sarah Palin: I support drilling in Alaska because it’s going to be good for our nation and our nation’s…
Hannity: Including ANWR?
Palin: Absolutely. ANWR is a 2,000 acre plot of land and it’s a 20 million acre plot of land. It’s about the size of LAX, that platform of land that we would need to explore. But, no secret, John McCain and I agree to disagree on that one. And I’m going to keep working on him with ANWR.
Here is a video of Palin promoting drilling in ANWR at a meeting in Anchorage on July 17, 2008, just as gas prices were hitting $4 a gallon in some areas of the United States:
Here’s a video of Palin on Headline News’ Glen Beck Show discussing drilling in the ANWR region:
Table of Contents
- Top Palin Videos
- Troopergate: Palin fired Monegan for weakness in rural alcohol issues, offered him a job days later based on strength in rural alcohol issues
- Palin tells the Alaskan Independence Party, whose goal is a vote on seceding from the U.S., to ‘keep up the good work.’
- Palin skits on Saturday Night Live
- As of July 31st, Palin did not know what the vice president does
- Palin rallies the crowd at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota
- Palin says her proposed $30 billion pipeline project is "God's will"
- Palin says reductions in earmarks were because of Obama and McCain, not her
- Introduction to the country by John McCain: first speech in Ohio
- Palin incorrectly claims Alaska has accounted for "much progress" towards U.S. energy independence
- How many pigs with lipstick are there in America?
- Palin criticizes Hillary for complaining about sexist coverage; after being nominated, flip flops and says Hillary handled it well
- McCain said readiness to be president would be chief factor; nine vice-presidents have become president in the past
- Palin played significant role in planned gas pipeline, though has exaggerated some parts
- As governor, Palin billed state for 312 nights she spent in her own home
- Palin accepted $25,000 in gifts as governor; also received gifts from consituents while mayor
- Palin children traveled on state
- Palin did not cut special needs funding by 62%, she increased it
- Palin's record on pork barrel earmark spending: among the worst in the U.S.
- McCain attacked Wasilla three times during Palin's tenure for earmarks Palin won from Congress through lobbying
- Palin's relationship to Ted Stevens, master of pork barrel spending
- Record of Washington pork spending as mayor of Wasilla
- Record of Washington pork spending as governor is worst in the country
- Did not veto $500 million in earmarks as claimed
- Affirmed her support for earmarks while governor
- Alaska's earmark cutbacks were due to Congress, not Palin, Palin and her top official say.
- Palin criticized Obama for having 1/30th the amount of earmarks she had as governor and 1/60th the amount she had as mayor
- Palin's churches, and her speech as governor at the Wasilla Assembly of God
- Said her proposed $30 billion pipeline project was “will of God” and asked that Iraq war be “task of God”
- Palin spoke at the church as the governor, not as a private citizen; charged the state for airfare and other expenses
- Pastor of Palin's church said people who criticized Bush would go to hell, and that Jesus was in ‘war mode‘ and favored going to war in Iraq
- Palin's current church trying to get gay people to change their orientation
- Speaking at Palin's church, founder of Jews for Jesus says Jews are being punished by terrorists
- Major speeches and interviews since being selected
- Palin blew the whistle twice on a fellow Republican
- Jet not sold on eBay and not sold for a profit
- Palin, Democrats appear to share credit for oil tax increase
- The Bridge to Nowhere
- Palin claims she killed the Bridge to Nowhere
- Palin supported the bridge, accused ‘spinmeisters‘ of painting a negative image of it and used it to get elected
- She criticized use of the phrase “bridge to nowhere” as insulting
- Palin flip-flopped after the bridge became an embarrassment, and after Congress removed the funding earmark
- Palin reversed her support without telling anyone in Ketchikan first
- Palin announced her opposition to it at 5 a.m. Alaska time, a move critics say was timed to reach East Coast media before deadlines
- Palin did not say “no thanks;” kept the originally earmarked money and used it for other projects.
- Troopergate: Palin's firing of the public safety chief
- Palin did not endorse Buchanan in 2000; did attend a rally and wear a Buchanan button
- Position on abortion
- Palin favors teaching both contraception and abstinence
- Laughed three times in a radio interview when opponent who had cancer was called a cancer, overweight and a bitch
- Palin accepted money from known corrupt oilman later convicted in political scandals
- A month before her selection, she didn’t know what the vice president does
- Foreign policy and security
- A beginner on national and international issues
- Has only been to three foreign countries; never left North America before last year
- Palin has put little focus on Iraq; equated the war with 9-11
- Small involvement in Alaska National Guard
- Proximity of Alaska to Russia
- Palin did not appear to know what the Bush doctrine was
- Palin and the press
- Contradictory statements on Hillary Clinton's demeanor in the primary and the issue of news coverage of women politicians
- Palin did not take one question from a reporter in her first 7 days
- McCain campaign says Palin won't speak to the press unless it's in McCain's “best interest” and “best to win.”
- Palin restricts press access while meeting with world leaders at UN
- Presidential historians say Palin is least experienced person on a major party ticket in modern history
- The two largest newspapers in Alaska have raised concerns about her experience and readiness
- Palin and Democrats joined together to pass ethics bill
- Alaskans mad about intrusions from McCain campaign into state government
- The Environment
- Bush campaign veterans brought in to help Palin
- Husband was member of the fringe Alaskan Independence Party; Palin told ‘08 convention “keep up the good work.”
- Photo of Palin in a bikini holding a rifle is fake
- Palin criticized for mocking community organizing
- Taxes
- Spending
- In her convention speech, Palin quoted a racist author who advocated killing RFK
- Alaska supplies 3.5% of the U.S. domestic energy supply, not 20% as claimed by Palin
- Did Obama call Palin a pig?
- Palin returned donation from indicted politician
- TIME magazine analysis of the Palin phenomenon
- Experts: Palin's email practices raise questions about security, openness
- Years as mayor of Wasilla
- Palin tried to fire the Wasilla police chief and head of the town library in 1997 for “not fully supporting her”
- Palin asked town librarian about banning books and told department heads they needed her permission to talk to reporters
- Claim that Palin got more votes in Wasilla than Biden did for president
- Wasilla charged rape victims for forensic exams
- With a city administrator and no school system, Palin had limited duties as mayor
- Editorials, columns and opinion pieces about Palin
- Palin's husband has returned to BP after a leave of absence
- Palin did not cut funding for teen moms, she increased it
- Statements on teaching creationism in public schools
- Did Palin take a pay cut as mayor?
- As mayor, Palin got zoning aid on sale of her home
- Palin tells a voter U.S. should invade Pakistan if needed; McCain blames journalists
- Palin and Drilling in ANWR
- Palin booed at NHL game
- RNC spends $150,000 on Palin and family's wardrobe
- Palin pipeline terms curbed bids
- Some in the McCain camp accuse Palin of going 'rogue'
- Palin in 2012?
- Obama ad features Palin
- Suggestions and corrections
- Palin blames Bush administration for defeat
- Palin's return to Alaska may not be so warm
- McCain Campaign Spent $110,000 on Palin's Stylists
- Palin files late disclosure for free 2007 trips