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• Palin supports offshore drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge. "We're talking about a sliver of the coastal
plain of Alaska being explored and drilled for oil. It's about a
footprint of a 2,000-acre plot of land. That's smaller than the
footprint of LAX." she also added that, "I get frustrated with
folks from outside Alaska who come up and say, 'You shouldn't
develop your resources.'" . She also said, "I beg to disagree
with any candidate who would say we can't drill our way out of
our problem or that more supply won't ultimately affect prices.
Of course it will affect prices."
• Concerning global warming Palin says that, "A changing
environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because
of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute (global
warming) to being man-made."
• Palin supports the idea of a natural gas pipeline from
Alaska's North Slope. "When I look every day, the big oil
company's building is right out there next to me, and it's quite
a reminder that we should have mutually beneficial relationships
with the oil industry."
• Sarah Palin opposes the idea of putting the polar bear in the
endangered species list. She even went on to the extent of suing
the Interior Department over its decision. Palin is also in favor
of allowing mining in Bristol Bay, which, according to
environmentalists, may disrupt the vulnerable species of animals
such as bears, salmon and caribou.
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• Mike Huckabee is known for his pro-environmental views and
believes that people should be good stewards to the environment
regardless of the cause
• Outdoor Life magazine selected Huckabee as one of the 25 most
influential people for conservation. He was also named as Man of
the Year by the American Sportfishing Association in 1997.
• "I have always been a conservationist. Stewardship of the air
and land and soil is very important to me. I will follow the
principle I learned from the Boy Scouts: Always leave the land
better than when you found it. I am proud of my record in
Arkansas, building constructive consensus on key issues. I look
forward to bringing the same leadership to America."
• His stated his views on global warming, "The most important
thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are
responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to
the scientists, but it is all of our responsibility to leave this
planet in better shape for the future generations than we found
it."
• Huckabee believes that human beings are just the caretakers
of the magnificent creation of planet earth. "I believe that even
our responsibility to God means that we have to be good stewards
of this Earth, be good caretakers of the natural resources that
don't belong to us, we just get to use them. We have no right to
abuse them."
• The former governor of Arkansas supported conserving the
Buffalo River in the northern part of the state when he took a
stand against the construction of dams at the site. "While I
understand that building dams on streams can sometimes be useful
in flood control, the creation of water reservoirs necessary for
sustaining life, or for the production of electricity, we must be
careful to balance our use of those resources to ensure that we
do not lose all our natural treasures by altering them."
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