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Tuesday, August 28, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
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Environmentalists ready to fight to keep reserves
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Environmentalists are digging in for a new assault on what they consider sascanect energy reserves as threatened oil shortages and rising gasoline costs. The Persian Gulf crisis, start biting into U.S. pocketbooks.
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was only a few days old when Sen. Frank Murkowski, R Alaska, persuaded colleagues to take a measure that would make it easier to expand on the natural land, bypassing some environmental restrictions.
The oil industry was just as quick to call for abandoning recent curbs on offshore oil drilling, relaxing requirements for cleaner-burning gasoline and drilling in some environmentally sensitive areas.
Although neither Murkowski's nor any of the other proposals has won final congressional approval, environmentalists fear an intensified push by industry to win more federal funding and demand that congress returns from summer recess after Labor Day.
"Now that we're on the verge of another major national debate on energy policy, we’re about to be deluged with a lot of bad ideas," said Marc Ledbetter of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
Ledbetter and other environmentalists worry that the debate will be fueled by renewed declarations that the United States depends too much on imported oil from the Mexico and thus may be too ready to commit troops to fight for it.
The oil companies are trying to use the Middle East crisis to get Congress to "push the panic button" and wipe out 20 years of public lands protection, said Peter A. Berle, president of the National Audubon Society.
There is also concern that the latest oil-price shocks will complicate final clean air legislation.
Some industry spokespersons are suggesting that skyrocketing oil prices, the threat of armed conflict and a declining economy go against imposing expensive new taxes on controls that eventually will cost at least $20 billion a year.
"We must respect the environment, but we can't afford to continue keeping rich U.S. energy potential under lock and key when we're sending young Americans overseas
to protect western oil interests," said Richard Seibert, vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers.
Richard Rahn, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said the Middle East crisis should "wake people up" to the need to balance environmental protection and economic cost.
These arguments are nothing new, said Micha McCloskey, chairperson of the Sierra Club. He recalled the "brightful times" after oil shocks in 1973 and 1979 when environmental programs were under similar attack.
"The oil companies are now trying to get the American people to believe that our country needs to sacrifice its public lands so that it can pump its way out of today's oil disruption," he said.
But McCloskey and other environmentalists say the Middle East crisis also points out the need for more energy conservation and less use of fossil fuels. The warming effects in areas is a major cause of global warming and urban pollution.
Last week a group of environmentalists called for new energy conservation efforts, including passage of a Senate bill to dramatically boost auto fuel-efficiency requirements.
Environmentalists say that while the current situation may clarify how far Americans are willing to support environmental protection, they think their movement can fend off any attacks.
"There will be some old battles reopened by the oil companies especially, but I'm quite confident that the environmental positions are going to prevail," Christopher Flavin of the Worldwatch Institute said in a recent interview. "The American people will not abandon environmental issues."
The Bush administration has given no indication that it will reverse its recent decision to curtail offshore oil development along vast stretches of U.S. coastline for at least the next decade.
There also is no clear sign that Congress is prepared to go along with the oil industry and open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling, or to scuttle major sections of the proposed clean air legislation.
Refugees still fleeing Kuwait
The Associated Press
KHAFJI, Saudi Arabia - Desert nomads dashing to the Saudi border with refugees from Kuwait have hundreds of new landmarks to guide them as they evade Iraqi soldiers.
"Now we are using the abandoned cars as a sign of where to go. I asked Abdullah Al-Ajmj, a Bedouin guide where I was going."
Aside from the hundreds of stranded cars left by escapes, the nondams rely on trees, telegraph poles and walls to guide them.
"I know not to turn, at say the first hill but at the second hill. I say Al-Ajl-mi." "I know the desert very well from humiliating."
With troops of more than 100,000 on both sides of the border, the Saudi government over the weekend declared
Tens of thousands of refugees arrived across the desert sands in the first three weeks of Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait. Akuwa
Although refugees still come across the border, this frontier town has largely fallen silent. The only sound at this moment is a shiver.
all but the official border crossing a closed military area. "This is the new policy." Congress said.
said before he met with Saudi and U.S. military offices... and consultations about plans in case of an attack.
A Saudi official in Dhahram, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Saudi army was fanning out along the front lines — with the Americans at least 25 miles behind them.
"We would never put Americans up near the border. That could be disastrous politically," the official said. "If there are going to be casualties a Saudi will have to die first."
Meanwhile, doctors at the Red Crescent tents near the border said there were reports of deaths among those fleeing Kuwait that they ran out of water. The Red Cross is the equivalent of the Red Cross in Moslem countries.
People who crossed the border Sunday said the Iraqis were shooting at anything that moved. One car arrived with its right headlights smashed, a second with its spare tire punctured.
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