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The '''Energy Stewardship Alliance''' (ESA) claims describes itself as "a nonprofit organization formed to be support a non-profit coalition national energy policy that promotes development of U.S. domestic energy resources as well as energy conservation to reduce reliance on imported energy sources"professional organizations. " Oil exploration and production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's (ANWR) coastal plain is an important component," it states on its website, of a policy aimed at promoting the developing of U.S. energy sources.<ref>[http://www.anwr.org/esa/esa.htm "individualsEnergy Stewardship Alliance" who believe opening ], accessed March 2008.</ref>  While the alliance describes itself as a non-profit organization, it is not listed in Guidestar as a non-profit registered with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Instead, its web pages are a part of the website of [[Arctic National Wildlife RefugePower]] (ANWR) , an oil industry front group established to promote oil drilling is worth and gas exploration in the human and environmental riskArctic National Wildlife Refuge.  To give itself a superficial veneer of environmental sensitivity, ESA's logo shows the outline of a caribou and some trees. Shortly after its creation, ESA ran TV ads depicting long gas lines during the energy crisis of the 1970s, and warned that failure to drill in the ANWR could bring on a similar crisis.

:As of December, 2004the Alliances listed its members as being<ref>[http://www.anwr.org/esa/esa-members.htm Energy Stewardship Alliance Members (ESA)"], December 2004. (Accessed March 2008).</ref>

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