AK Senate Debate: on Energy & Oil


Lisa Murkowski: Need a president who will sign ANWR

MURKOWSKI: “The key is that we have a president who will sign ANWR this time,” Murkowski said. “It’s so important not to have John Kerry in office.”

KNOWLES: Knowles, who also supports drilling in the refuge, said Republicans have failed because they have not reached across party lines--something he has promised to do throughout his campaign. “We can make great progress,” he said.

Source: AK Senate Debate in Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Oct 29, 2004

Tony Knowles: Support drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

MURKOWSKI: “The key is that we have a president who will sign ANWR this time,” Murkowski said. “It’s so important not to have John Kerry in office.”

KNOWLES: Knowles, who also supports drilling in the refuge, said Republicans have failed because they have not reached across party lines--something he has promised to do throughout his campaign. “We can make great progress,” he said.

Source: AK Senate Debate in Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Oct 29, 2004

Lisa Murkowski: Support fiscal incentives for the natural gas pipeline

Murkowski attacked Knowles for saying he wouldn’t support a bill that included fiscal incentives for the natural gas pipeline, while Knowles berated Murkowski for not including provisions that would have forced Exxon Mobil to pay punitive damages to Alaskans for the 1989 oil spill.
Source: AK Senate Debate, Anchorage Daily News Oct 27, 2004

Lisa Murkowski: Get ANWR with a Republican-led majority

MURKOWSKI: “We needed two votes in the last go-’round [of the ANWR vote]. With a Republican-led majority, you get it on the agenda. We pick up these seats. We have George Bush in office. And we get ANWR next year. That’s the strategy.”

KNOWLES: Instead of trying to push a “partisan, secret, pork-filled bill that’s now lying dead on the floor of Congress,” an Alaska senator needs to seek ANWR through a bill that also sets tougher mileage standards for cars and requires power plants to use a certain percentage of renewable fuels, he said. “That’s the balance that I believe is going to bring about the development of ANWR and the gas line,” he said.

Source: AK Senate Debate, in Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Oct 20, 2004

Tony Knowles: Seek ANWR through a bill that sets tougher mileage standards

MURKOWSKI: “We needed two votes in the last go-’round [of the ANWR vote]. With a Republican-led majority, you get it on the agenda. We pick up these seats. We have George Bush in office. And we get ANWR next year. That’s the strategy.”

KNOWLES: Instead of trying to push a “partisan, secret, pork-filled bill that’s now lying dead on the floor of Congress,” an Alaska senator needs to seek ANWR through a bill that also sets tougher mileage standards for cars and requires power plants to use a certain percentage of renewable fuels, he said. “That’s the balance that I believe is going to bring about the development of ANWR and the gas line,” he said.

Source: [Xref Murkowski] AK Senate Debate, in Daily News-Miner Oct 20, 2004

  • The above quotations are from Alaska Senate Debates: Lisa Murkowski (R) vs. Tony Knowles (D), Oct. 20 and Oct. 29, 2004
    Plus commentary byJim Sykes (Green) and Scott Kohlhaas (Libertarian).
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