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The oil industry has tried for more than 20 years to get access to what is believed to be billions of barrels of oil beneath the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in north-eastern Alaska. Now it seems they have won.
Environmentalists have fought such development and argued that despite improved environmental controls a web of pipelines and drilling platforms would harm calving caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds that use the coastal plain.The 19-million-acre refuge was set aside for protection by President Eisenhower in 1960.
{AP}
What do you think about this? It seems we won't actually see any of this oil turned into gas for another 10 years, leases,processing ect. I personally wish they wouldn't, there's a reason its called a refuge.
Migratory animals already have a hard time getting around excisting pipelines, and oil leeks/spills in this area would be devastating.
Environmentalists have fought such development and argued that despite improved environmental controls a web of pipelines and drilling platforms would harm calving caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds that use the coastal plain.The 19-million-acre refuge was set aside for protection by President Eisenhower in 1960.
{AP}
What do you think about this? It seems we won't actually see any of this oil turned into gas for another 10 years, leases,processing ect. I personally wish they wouldn't, there's a reason its called a refuge.
Migratory animals already have a hard time getting around excisting pipelines, and oil leeks/spills in this area would be devastating.