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Palin: Environment And Animals Must Be Sacrificed And “Take One For The Team” (picture)
ormer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said this week that caribou that died as a result of oil pipeline expansions would have to “take one for the team.”
According to Forbes’ Christopher Helman, Palin delighted members of the oil and gas industry in a speech to the North American Prospect Expo (NAPE) in Texas on Thursday.
She recalled to the crowd that what she missed most about being Alaska’s governor was making decisions about oil and gas exploration.
“Energy is my baby,” Palin explained, adding that oil and gas could “feed and fuel a hungry nation with what God has created for man’s responsible use.”
With the recent drop in the price of oil, Palin said that now “is the time to plan for more drilling and more production.”
But she said that President Barack Obama was making that difficult with EPA regulations and by refusing to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
“The punitive aspect of it is to really stick it to the American people,” Palin insisted.
She argued that the president “is not for American energy independence” because he refused to expand drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
“All we need to explore and develop ANWR is a 2,000 acre swath. Alaska is 400 million acres when you consider our water and land. A postage stamp in the middle of a football field. That’s all the land we need to develop.”
“The administration is not understanding the inherent link between energy and security and energy and prosperity,” Palin opined. “He’s rewarding the environmentalists who are extreme in saying there would be environmental harm in developing ANWR.”
She told the crowd that concerns over the “moose and caribou” were blown out of proportion because the Trans-Alaska Pipeline “has not been adverse at all. MOEHERE
