Drill, Baby, Drill ! The American Right and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
International audience This article analyzes the attitudes of American conservatives and libertarians with regard to federal conservationist policies in theUnited States, taking the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska as a case study. ANWR is a huge tract of land located inthe northeast...
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ftunivlyon3:oai:HAL:halshs-01719511v1 2023-05-15T15:04:51+02:00 Drill, Baby, Drill ! The American Right and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drill, Baby, Drill ! La Droite américaine et l’Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Collomb, Jean-Daniel Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (UJML) Université de Lyon 2016-05-01 https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01719511 https://doi.org/10.4000/dynenviron.1112 en eng HAL CCSD Presses universitaires de Bordeaux [1983-2020] CEDETE (Université d'Orléans) (2021-.) info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.4000/dynenviron.1112 halshs-01719511 https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01719511 doi:10.4000/dynenviron.1112 http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/licences/copyright/ ISSN: 1968-469X EISSN: 2534-4358 Dynamiques Environnementales - Journal international des géosciences et de l’environnement https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01719511 Dynamiques Environnementales - Journal international des géosciences et de l’environnement, 2016, Les espaces naturels protégés sont-ils nécessaires ?, 35, pp.58-75. ⟨10.4000/dynenviron.1112⟩ http://www.pub-editions.fr/index.php/revues/dynamiques-environnementales.html conservatism ecology environmentalism ideology landscape libertarianism national parks oil preservationism technology wildlife refuges Conservatisme écologie environnementalisme idéologie libertarianisme parcs nationaux paysage pétrole préservationnisme technique [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography [SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2016 ftunivlyon3 https://doi.org/10.4000/dynenviron.1112 2023-04-11T23:46:39Z International audience This article analyzes the attitudes of American conservatives and libertarians with regard to federal conservationist policies in theUnited States, taking the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska as a case study. ANWR is a huge tract of land located inthe northeastern part of Alaska. Since 1960 it has enjoyed wilderness status, that is to say, the highest degree of protection for federallands in the United States. Its size was vastly increased when Congress passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act(ANILCA) in 1980. Since then, the 1002 area, which is located in the northern part of the Refuge and which contains large reserves ofpetroleum, has become a major bone of contention pitting environmentalists against free-marketers. The former want the Refuge toremain inviolate whilst the latter push for the immediate opening of the 1002 area to oil drilling. This article sheds light on the reasonsfor the positions held by the American Right, and moreover looks at its implications for federally preserved areas in the United Statesby examining the publications on ANWR by the main conservative and libertarian think tanks which have developed a genuineinterest in this issue. Since the 1970s, various think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, have often been financed by well-heeledcorporate interests and have acted as the ideological arsenal of the American Right on all topics which US elected officials can beexpected to discuss. In the specific case of ANWR, as in many others, conservative and libertarian think tanks provide Republicanmembers of Congress, and some Alaska Democrats, with economic, technical, and scientific arguments to justify opening theRefuge. Opening the Refuge is not the free-marketers’ only priority: they also intend to call into question the justification for federalinterventionism by calling for an end to environmental regulations and the almost total privatization of federally-owned lands. Inpoint of fact, the repeated attempts made by the ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Alaska Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3: Publications scientifiques (HAL) Arctic Dynamiques environnementales 35 59 75 |
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International audience This article analyzes the attitudes of American conservatives and libertarians with regard to federal conservationist policies in theUnited States, taking the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska as a case study. ANWR is a huge tract of land located inthe northeastern part of Alaska. Since 1960 it has enjoyed wilderness status, that is to say, the highest degree of protection for federallands in the United States. Its size was vastly increased when Congress passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act(ANILCA) in 1980. Since then, the 1002 area, which is located in the northern part of the Refuge and which contains large reserves ofpetroleum, has become a major bone of contention pitting environmentalists against free-marketers. The former want the Refuge toremain inviolate whilst the latter push for the immediate opening of the 1002 area to oil drilling. This article sheds light on the reasonsfor the positions held by the American Right, and moreover looks at its implications for federally preserved areas in the United Statesby examining the publications on ANWR by the main conservative and libertarian think tanks which have developed a genuineinterest in this issue. Since the 1970s, various think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, have often been financed by well-heeledcorporate interests and have acted as the ideological arsenal of the American Right on all topics which US elected officials can beexpected to discuss. In the specific case of ANWR, as in many others, conservative and libertarian think tanks provide Republicanmembers of Congress, and some Alaska Democrats, with economic, technical, and scientific arguments to justify opening theRefuge. Opening the Refuge is not the free-marketers’ only priority: they also intend to call into question the justification for federalinterventionism by calling for an end to environmental regulations and the almost total privatization of federally-owned lands. Inpoint of fact, the repeated attempts made by the ... |
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