ANWR
Open land stretching for miles in all directions, with on of the worlds greatest natural resource sitting beneath the surface. What is it you ask? It is oil. In Alaska, there are tons of barrels of oil coming out of existing oil production plants, but they will not be giving out as much oil as they once did. The Prudhoe Bay oil field will soon be drying up and Alaska will need a new place to drill for oil. How will Alaska fulfill this task of gaining more oil. Well there is this land in the northeast corner of Alaska called ANWR, which stands for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ANWR is where the oil companies want to drill for oil. There are only a few problems. The Alaska government wants ANWR open but the federal government doesn't want to open ANWR because it will disturb the natural habitat which really annoys the environmentalist. ANWR should be opened for drilling because it will create many new jobs. The environmentalists don't want the oil companies to disturb the natural habitat, but Prudhoe Bay has been operating for 17 years without any detectable environmental damages, and everyone would be able to gain economic wealth. One reason Alaska should open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is because i
"29 Eskimo tribes in ANWR want Alaska to drill because then Alaska would have to pay them to move. "6 Many people have said, "there is no better time than now to open the refuge to oil production and to do it right now. Failure to maintain domestic production will make the nations increasingly dependent on oil from politically unstable areas of the world. "35 Since ANWR is federal land Alaska would lease it to the government then we would get most of all the oil money that would come out of ANWR. Environmentalists claim development could destroy the 19 million acre refuge and endanger wildlife. The oil industry says the impact will not be that serious. "13 I would sure to know if the environmentalists would say that if of the sudden they went dead broke, and had to live on the street. "33 Congress thinks that they would split the money 50-50, but they're wrong. "The wild creatures near other North Slope oil operations have been undisturbed by oil field operations. ANWR's coast is home to many animals, but especially caribou. "21 People have no learned that the fish and wildlife can co-exist, so can humans and wildlife. 3 billion in leasing fees from drilling on ANWR, they say would go toward paying off the national debt. Since the oil companies aren't using much land, "less than 1 percent of ANWR's 12,700 acres on the coastal plain will be damaged by oil drilling and production. Charles Philips said recently in a magazine, "oil can be drilled safely in ANWR.
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