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{{Show badges| Front groups}}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.

ESA's coordinator, was [[Roger Herrera]], is a former [[BP Amoco]] executive with a long history of efforts to open ANWR to the oil industry: * "manager of exploration and lands for the Standard Alaska Production Company. ("Alaska refuge coveted by oil industry," Christian Science Monitor<ref>Poornima Gupta, 2/9/87) * "Manager of Operations for BP's Sohio Alaska Petroleum Company."[http://www.ebenhopsonforests.comorg/aprarchive/SEPT82america/Sep82wettundra.html]* "president of Northern Knowledgeadwarla1.htm "("Murkowski to hold key hearing on Advertising war launched over Arctic coastal plain oil development billfields"]," Office of Senator Murkowski''Reuters'', March 28, 42001.</4/00) Northern Knowledge is listed in the Yahoo! Anchorage yellow pages under "Oil & Gas Exploration & Development." * "ref> a former [[BP Amoco]] executive who is now consultant with Arctic Power, an Alaska group pushing for oil development in a long history of efforts to open ANWR." ("Refuge lobbyists up ante," Anchorage Daily News, 1/3/01). The interest groups that comprise the board and membership of Arctic Power include the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, Alaska State Chamber of Commerce, Resource Development Council, Alaska Trucking Association, Alaska Oil & Gas Association, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, Alaska Miner's Association Alaska Forest Association (www.anwr.org).* a registered lobbyist for Arctic Power and BP America according to the Center for Responsive Politics. He was paid $20,000 in 1997 as a lobbyist for BP America and reported $30,000 in lobbying income from Arctic Power in 1999oil industry.

: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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*Center for Responsive Poltics, [http://www.opensecrets.org/include/formattoprint.asp?Page=/alerts/v6/alertv6_13.asp "Mystery Alaska: The Lobbying over ANWR Drilling"], ''Money in Politics Alert'', Open Secrets.org, March 26, 2001.[[Category:Environment]][[Category:United States]][[category:Energy]]