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Also, eight billion recovered barrels would be the equivalent of our entire domestic use of oil for well over a year, not just six months. Important to note, though, is that no policy-maker has argued that we should open ANWR to development and then become independent of the use of foreign oil. Rather, the oil produced would be used to supplement our imports for the next 20 years...
According to agencies that would coordinate the coastal plain development, only an estimated 2,000 acres would be needed. That number represents approximately 1/10,000th of ANWR. Some environmentalists claim that the coastal plain is the last five percent of the Arctic coastline (not the Alaskan coastline) that has not been drilled, but this figure is false. A mere 14 percent of the entire 1,100-mile Arctic coastal plain has been opened to oil exploration. Furthermore, exploration and development usually occur during the cold winter months, when the temperature falls below 40 degrees Fahrenheit and when there...
Exploration and development of regions like ANWR has also changed in recent years due to improved technology such as the development of a directional drill bit, which utilizes horizontal drilling and dramatically reduces the number of oil wells used in drilling. Such technological advances would allow the development of ANWR to be done much less intrusively than what was previously possible...
...understand how development in ANWR could affect the wildlife, the best available information comes from Prudhoe Bay, which is located about 80 miles away. Foremost, there are no listed endangered species living on the coastal plain. Of the animal species affected by opening ANWR, many people seem to focus on the Porcupine caribou herd, which migrates to the coastal plain in the summer. Many do not realize, though, that the herd not only travels past 89 dry oil wells drilled by the Canadian government when it travels from Canada to ANWR, but that is also crosses Canada?...
...according to the most recent estimate by state and federal wildlife agencies. The Inupiat Eskimos, who count on the wildlife as a source of their livelihood, have witnessed how the development of Prudhoe Bay has coexisted with a thriving wildlife community. The same balance and support is possible with ANWR...