Oil drilling has played a significant role in the development of the state.

Oil drilling began in the 1950s, with the production initially for domestic use.

Highest ever recorded increase in one year since oil drilling began 1859.

Cases of cancer had increased dramatically in the region since oil drilling began.

As a result, species extinction could be accelerated by the impact oil drilling would have there.

Offshore oil drilling is best left in the dustbins of history.

The issue of the oil disaster and oil drilling has also been raised.

It is true that oil drilling would not ravage the entire refuge.

The standoff over oil drilling came as Congress tried to wrap up its business for the year, but significant issues were far from settled.

Congressional authorization is required before oil drilling may proceed in this area.

Oil drilling takes place in these European waters.

The survey also found that like their elders, students are divided as to whether oil drilling should be allowed in offshore areas and Alaska.

Conoco's explorations will mark the first time that oil drilling has been allowed in a national monument.

Prior to this acquisition, Hammersley was only a "proposed" wild area as gas and oil drilling were still possible.

By definition, oil drilling is incompatible with wilderness.

Poaching, pollution and oil drilling have decimated the sturgeon, scientists say.

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Oil drilling might be a tough life, but the drillers obviously believed in doing themselves well in their off-duty hours.

Offshore oil drilling causes severe air pollution.

Supporters of oil exploration in the refuge argue that oil drilling can now be done safely, without damage to the environment.

Soviet commercial acquisition of other major technologies, such as numerically controlled machine tools and offshore oil drilling has been relatively late.

They want better schools, better jobs and more comfortable lives, and most believe that oil drilling is the way to achieve that.

"The industry and regulators were on notice and yet this spill still happened, because oil drilling is an inherently dangerous activity.

The anti abortion window breakers put lives of vulnerable women and their medical practitioners at risk, just as deepwater oil drilling is going to.

In June 1986, a statewide survey found that 53 percent thought the issue of strictly limiting offshore oil drilling was "extremely important" or "very important."