Gale Norton
Gale Norton
Gale Ann Nortonserved as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. She was the first woman to hold the position...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 March 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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The two hurricanes coming so close together really illustrate how much of our offshore production was affected,
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clearly will be in the billions of dollars.
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I look forward to visiting a national park and not holding a press conference in there. I look forward to being able to contemplate the wilderness without having reporters and their notebooks following me.
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It's primarily a question of how fast (processing) facilities get back on line,
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Major repairs may take months and some facilities into next year,
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The greater Yellowstone's population of grizzlies, a population that once was plummeting toward extinction, has now recovered,
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communication, consultation, and cooperation, in the name of conservation.
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There's more competition on the world market, which means that Americans will be paying higher prices and having even more need for energy security.
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This great icon of the American West now has a promising future. Our grandchildren's grandchildren will see grizzly bears roaming in mountains, forests and rivers in the Yellowstone area.
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The Greater Yellowstone population of grizzly bears, a population that was once plummeting toward extinction is now recovered, ... These bears are now no longer endangered.
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a very reasonable compromise between those who support further development ... to meet our growing energy demands and the citizens of Florida who oppose drilling in the waters off their coastline.
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As Colorado's attorney general, she allowed polluters to evade environmental fines and did little after a gold mine's cyanide leaks killed all life in a 17-mile stretch of river, ... In another case, she sat out the fight against a corporate power plant that broke air pollution laws 19,000 times.
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Our approach has been to have a balanced energy policy, and today's decision indicates that balance. ... This does allow us to prevent the most immediate, most in-shore area of potential oil and gas development.
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We are actively looking at lease sales in the 181 area,