Get out your shovels, Alaskans! The New York Times’ Felicity Barringer reports that the Interior Dept. has opened 2.6 million acres of a petroleum reserve in northeast Alaska. The area could unleash 965,000 barrels of oil.

The Bush administration has not, however, approved opening up 600,000 acres at the tip of Alaska, which is home to migrating caribou and thousands of waterfowl. This land has been protected since the Jimmy Carter administration. It will be interesting to see if the president, a failed oil speculator himself, continues with these oil exploration limitations for his last six months in office.-MB

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