Part of this effort is to open up "protected" land that the bears may or may not step foot on for oil exploration. The greenies don't want that and are using this as the reason of the month to keep it closed.
-------------------- "When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; you may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand