Posted AT 10:17 PM EDT on 09/11/05
Alaska oil drilling plans dropped
In a move certain to please Canadian politicians, U.S. house leaders late Wednesday abandoned an attempt to push through a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling.
They dropped the plan because they feared it would jeopardize approval of a sweeping budget bill Thursday.
Canadian Environment Minister Stephane Dion has said the plan will disrupt a caribou herd that migrates through the Yukon to the refuge.
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