Just when we all thought it was safe to drill in the ANWR...Forwarded from the CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY,
by Jane Clark

BUSH ADMINISTRATION SUPPRESSES POLAR BEAR REPORT 
CRITICAL OF ARCTIC REFUGE OIL DRILLING
On 10-30-01, the Center for Biological Diversity filed suit against the 
Bush administration for refusing to publicly release a U.S. Fish & 
Wildlife Service report suggesting that opening the Arctic National 
Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling could undermine the entire U.S. polar 
bear conservation strategy and violate an international polar bear 
agreement. Though the report was requisitioned by Congress in 
response to complaints about oil drilling and hunting, the Bush 
administration has refused to complete the report, send it Congress, 
or even release it to the public. Instead, it is pushing Congress to 
approve oil drilling before the impacts are revealed.

To find out more about the lawsuit and the suppressed report:
www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/species/polarbear/index.html

Washington Post article:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8697-2001Oct29.html