Ken Salazar has issues with bad timing.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The Interior Department is offering oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve while promising to protect critical migratory bird and caribou habitat.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the Bureau of Land Management will offer 190 tracts with bids to be opened Aug. 11 in Anchorage. The sale is one of dozens, mostly in Western states, that Salazar announced in November.
Meanwhile, I thought Sarah Palin said the "extreme greenies," with all of their mighty influence to overrule the most powerful corporations in the world, forced oil drilling to move offshore and into deep water.