Alaskan Drilling
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The good and bad about drilling oil in Alaska.
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Con Oil- Audubon
What happened and why it's bad.
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Teshekpuk Lake
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incredibly diverse variety of migratory shorebirds, waterfowl and wildlife.
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January 2006,
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reversed
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opening every single acre of the Teshekpuk area to petroleum leasing
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expert opinions from biologists and wildlife managers, objections from many Alaska Natives on the North Slope, and the wisdom of four US Presidents
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Environmental Impact Statement in an attempt to satisfy the court and allow oil drilling development to move ahead.
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deep-water lakes that offer high quality forage and refuge for flightless geese to escape predators.
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attract up to 37,000 Pacific Black Brant and 35,000 Greater White-fronted Geese, as well as thousands of Canada and snow geese
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45,000 head Teshekpuk Lake Caribou Herd returns to this habitat each year to bear its calves
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Inupiat Natives, who have lived in this region for thousands of years, depend on the caribou as a food source.
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critical wildlife habitat will be surrounded by roads, pipelines, airstrips, gravel mines and industrial sprawl.
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not solve our energy problems
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Pro and Con-Alaska Drilling Debate Heats Up
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oil underneath the Alaskan tundra represents decades worth of imports from Saudi Arabia.
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Opponents say all the recoverable oil in the reserve is about what the country burns through in nine months
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Even if drilling were approved tomorrow, it would take a decade before any oil would flow from the wilderness area
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simple improvements in fuel efficiency, like keeping tires inflated and improving gas mileage on SUVs, would save more oil, and sooner, than drilling in Alaska would ever supply.
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The differences in the numbers -- decades worth of imports from Saudi Arabia, compared to a nine-month supply -- are part spin, part differing interpretations of a U.S. Geological Survey report on how much oil is under the wilderness area.
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Senate OKs oil drilling in Alaska's ANWR
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hard-fought Senate vote
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oil and natural gas could be flowing from ANWR in seven to 10 years.
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51-49 Senate vote to allow drilling for oil and natural gas in a protected part of the Alaskan wilderness
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ecologically rich and largely untouched area of northern Alaska that defenders said is far too valuable to threaten with development.
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The challenge will argue that the ANWR provision is out of order on a budget bill because it deals with policy rather than money.
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government to raise $2.7 billion by selling leases and through royalties from ANWR during the next five years.
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BP, ConocoPhillips and ChevronTexaco have withdrawn from Arctic Power, the business coalition formed to lobby for drilling in ANWR. Among big oil companies, only ExxonMobil Corp. remains.
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ExxonMobil supports environmentally responsible development within the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."
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efforts to pry open a 1.5 million-acre chunk of pristine wilderness that had been off limits to development for 25 years. The Interior Department estimates 10.4 billion barrels of oil lies beneath ANWR. Critics vehemently dispute that estimate, claiming most of the oil included in that projection is not recoverable.
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We believe this is the greatest reservoir for oil and gas on the North American continent so it really must be explored and developed
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Nothing in here guarantees we will lower gasoline prices or guarantee that the oil will stay in the United States
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We can't drill our way to energy independence in the Arctic. ... Most Americans agree that drilling in a wildlife refuge -- to secure a six-month supply of oil a decade from now -- just isn't worth it.
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Con Oil- Alaskan Drilling (ANWR)
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What Size Shoe Does the Oil Industry Wear?
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"limits" the oil industry to developing a mere 2,000 acres of the refuge. Here are the facts that give the lie to this canard.
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1.5-million-acre coastal plain in more than 30 small deposits.
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drill sites, airports and roads, and gravel mines has a footprint of 12,000 acres, but it actually spreads across an area of more than 640,000 acres, or 1,000 square miles. [2]
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oil field industrial sprawl on the North Slope
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House bill would open the entire 1.5-million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge to oil and gas leasing and exploration
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysis
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
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enormous oil and gas resources and its importance as wildlife habitat
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numerous wells have been drilled and oil fields discovered
near ANWR (fig. 2), new geologic and geophysical data have become available,
seismic processing and interpretation capabilities have improved, and the
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new assessment involved 3 years of study by 40 USGS scientists,
who coordinated work with colleagues in other Federal agencies, Alaska State
agencies, and several universities. New field studies were conducted, new
well and sample data were analyzed, and new geophysical data were acquired. -
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5.7 and 16.0 billion barrels
(95-percent and 5-percent probability range), with a mean value of 10.4 billion
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estimated to be between 4.3 and 11.8 billion barrels
(95- and 5-percent probability range), with a mean value of 7.7 billion barrels
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3.4 and 10.2 billion barrels of
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1996 dollars and
are based on the expectation that production will repay all operating costs,
including taxes and transport to market, all investment expenditures, and
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Figure 4.
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recoverable oil in the 1002 area is
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Alaska Oil Vs. Alaska Wildlife: Many Voices
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Only for oil would anyone want to go there
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muskox, tundra swan, Arctic fox, snowy owl, brilliant wildflowers, braided rivers, and magnificent mountains, all in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of northern Alaska
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oil prices are low, the oil companies are not seeking new wells now
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gain the right to drill
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make the last major on-shore oil discovery in the United States is about to be lost, or a pristine wilderness is about to be lost
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petroleum industry cares about the special ecological and wildlife values of the Arctic and works hard and spends great sums to protect them.
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North Slope oil is now providing about one-fourth of all domestic oil production with no significant impact on the ecologically sensitive Alaskan environment."
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Prudhoe Bay, bulldozers, drilling rigs, and garbage dumps. There have been 23,000 oil spills there.
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oil activities have stripped 11,000 acres of Arctic vegetation and have reduced the numbers of most bird species
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Twenty of twenty-one major waste-storage pits at Prudhoe were found ... to violate Environmental Protection Agency standards, discharging toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and carcinogens into wetland habitats."
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open up that Alaska refuge
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The roads constructed by the oil industry have opened the area to hunters, who have decimated the populations of bear and wolf, predators of the caribou.
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Environmentalists don't give you hospitals, roads, housing, water, and sewers.
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I believe we can get it in a way that will not cause significant damage.
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Refuge four airfields, three hundred miles of road, one hundred miles of pipeline, two desalinization plants, seven large production facilities, fifty to sixty drilling pads, ten to fifteen gravel pits, and a seaport or two.
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forfeit potentially substantial economic benefits if oil exploration of this narrow strip of tundra -- about one-half of 1 percent of Alaska -- is unduly delayed.
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81% chance of finding no economically recoverable oil
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Alaska Town Split Over Drilling in Wildlife Refuge
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Kaktovik. A handful of residents chanted slogans and unfurled signs opposing oil drilling, reflecting a small but significant shift in sentiment against proposed legislation that would permit drilling on the nearby tundra.
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But a recent petition opposing drilling attracted the signatures of 57 of Kaktovik's 188 adults, and Mayor Lon Sonsalla said he is no longer certain where the majority stand.
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Many Inupiats here question whether opening the refuge will endanger something they value most: their traditions -- especially the annual bowhead whale hunt, their strongest link to the past.
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drilling on land will eventually expand into the waters offshore, where residents have long opposed drilling for fear it will interfere with whale migration.
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