It depends on when and where you fly over. ANWAR is huge. At times of the year it is barren, but it is also teaming with wildlife for much of the year. My college room mate has been twice and his pictures are awesome.
You are correct. ANWAR is huge. And that is what is so strange. The part of it that the industry is wanting to get is very tiny. I have been working the North Slope for 9 years and have sat thru the studies that are done. Wildlife hs not been imapcted negatively. And we could go on forever about the pos. stuff.
When the pipeline was built they did all kinds of studies on how it would impact wildlife and the wilderness. As it turns out the wildlife actually use the pipeline for shelter not to mention the pipeline warms the area around it. Its funny just what all these wacky people know ahead of time. The old saying, Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it!
This is true. I've seen some of it. They can even put in a small pad with heavy-lift helicopters and not have to make a road to a site. And roads in a wilderness area are the big problem for environmentalists. Roads bring people, not just the oil workers, but recreational vehicles, hunters, and other assorted human intrusion into one of the last wilderness areas we have left. This is false. It's a Wildlife Refuge for heaven's sake. If drilling proponents cannot come to grips with this fact, it explains why resistence has been so high. True again. But the technology will have to be applied by those who recognize that there is wildlife to be protected. Oil companies often only see snow and tundra, unfortunately. It ain't the little spills. It's the big human disruption of a very fragile ecosystem. We need the oil and we have too go get it, but great precautions must be followed. It can be done, the technology is almost there and the oil company mindset is starting to change. Proper balance must be found between environmental protection and effective exploration and production.
Just a few things. Up here All the facilities are built on gravel pads. If not the Tundra wouldn't support it and various other reasons. Roads are private and used to get from site to site. No tourist here, they must get thru a secured gate and that ain't happening. It does in deadhorse, but not into the facility area. The wildlife refuge will be protected. You cannot even walk in the tundra without special permission. Besides that if you wonder off to far you could be bear food. The wildlife up here has the right away. Not the workers. Any one caught screwing around or disrupting the animals with the exception to personel safety will probably be looking for a job.
While we are busy bickering over who is too blame for high oil prices, China and other countries will be in our backyard drilling for oil.
Well the few months worth of oil and gas they produce won't change anything. Enviromental restrictions are not going to be lowered for United States drilling by anyone let alone someone with no history of enviromental compliance. So in my opionion they article is a weak attempt at nothing. Nothing about the find by you but what would the press do to Exxon or somebody if they asked for the same thing. They would bring up every little spill or incident they had and try to burn them at the stake. Others would call for a mass overthrow if our government would go into a free trade with Cuba for oil. Can't have your cake and eat it to
Thats the reason I posted on this thread in the first place. People want to complain because the oil companies make huge profits and at the same time restrict them from using that money to drill for more oil. Its not like they can invest that money like a normal company. People don't mind paying the "gas tax" nor do they seem to have a problem with that. I guess its the way the government has us programed or they have control over us?
don't the oil compainies have an obligation to their stockholders? there is no moral imperative for them to lower profits..............asinine to think that somehow congress is now coming to the rescue........could it be that elections are just around the corner?
also, if we care about the environment and global warming (of course i dont) then it would make sense to favor gas prices getting as high as possible.
