Oil drilling in Alaska

             On January 3 in the year 1959, Alaska officially became the forty-ninth state of the United States of America. Alaska is over twice the size of Texas; measuring from north to south at approximately 1,400 miles long and from east to west it is 2,700 miles wide making it the largest state in America. Despite this abundance of land, Alaska has the lowest population density in all of the United States. This minute population is due to the countries abundance of wildlife, vast amount of natives and their unindustrialized villages, and the varying amount of harsh and unbearable areas of land. The stability of the Alaskan economy relies on their agriculture production (seafood, dairy products, livestock), but more importantly their production of petroleum and natural gasses. Alaska's production of oil and natural gasses accounts for approximately twenty-five percent of the oil produced within the United States. Within Alaska, Prudhoe Bay, which is on the northern coast, is North America's largest oil field. Prudhoe Bay is situated directly on the coasts of the North Slope and the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). This vast amount of land within the Northern Slopes and the ANWR has become a controversial topic within Alaska and the United States due to its abundance of oil and the oil export ban, which has preserved and protected the natural environment for so many years.
             The issue on oil drilling in the Northern Slopes and the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska has been, and continues to be, a topic of heated discussion among the members of the American congress. Among the American congress, opinions and views are split between the two Parties. For a few years now, the Republican Party has been trying to push the repeal of the ban on extensive drilling and exporting of the state's North Slope oil. The Republican's argue that if oil companies are permitted to completely drill oil from the Northern Slopes, then...

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