As the Bush Administration approaches its final months, it is employing a multi-tiered, industry-supported strategy to open even more public lands to oil and gas drilling.

At this teleconference, a panel of Wilderness Society experts discussed:

• Recently revealed details about legal loopholes and other strategies planned by the Bush administration to increase drilling;
• The potential impact of these actions on public lands and on gasoline prices;
• New state-by-state information on oil and gas development for Alaska, NM, WY, UT, CO, and MT, including an analysis of the administration’s May 21 assessment of oil and natural gas resources on federal lands.

Listen: Wilderness Society experts discuss high gas prices and drilling boom with questions and answers from reporters.

Speakers

• Nada Culver of The Wilderness Society’s BLM Action Center (303) 650-5818 x 117
  
• Dave Alberswerth, Senior Policy Advisor, The Wilderness Society (202) 429-2695
  
• Eleanor Huffines, Director of The Wilderness Society’s Alaska Office (907) 272-9453
  

Other experts and economists were on the call to answer questions.