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...someone who was born and raised in Alaska, I want to address some misconceptions about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Many people believe that developing ANWR would destroy an otherwise pristine wilderness in exchange for just six months’ worth of oil. But such statements rely upon misleading or false facts for their support; in truth, ANWR is a 19-million-acre region, of which eight million acres have already been put into formal wilderness status and an additional 9.5 million acres are designated as wildlife refuge. Those 17.5 million acres form a protected area, nearly as large...
...remaining 1.5 million acres make up the coastal plain which, according to the latest U.S. Geological Survey estimate, contain a mean of 7.7 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil (this excludes State and Native areas). Those opposed to the development of ANWR argue that the region would only produce 3.2 billion barrels, a strikingly conservative and low-end estimate. Even according to those statistics, however, ANWR would still be the second largest field ever discovered in the United States, second only to Prudhoe Bay. (Prudhoe Bay, though, is hardly a polluted oil field because the North Slope?...
Additionally, the area of the ANWR that is eligible to be opened to oil drilling is only 1.5 million acres of a 19 million acre area—the other 17.5 million acres do have the protected wildlife status that The Crimson endorses. And, though The Crimson finds “it difficult to believe” that drilling could be so “innocuous,” with advancing oil technology, the actual surface area which would have to be drilled IS only about three square miles, regardless of what The Crimson wants to believe. Though The Crimson...
...must not ignore the needs and opinions of the Alaskans. The state’s entire Congressional delegation, the state’s Senate and House, the governor and 78 percent of residents of the village of Kaktovik, the Native village within the coastal plain, support development of the ANWR. Those who are closest to the area and know the unbiased facts of the situation understand that drilling can be done responsibly. Done correctly, oil drilling in the ANWR will both increase conservation efforts and aid economic growth...
...clutching to our last barrel of oil.” But, on March 6th, oil prices rose over 1 percent on the heels of reports from the American Petroleum Institute that American oil supplies are at their lowest level since January 1974. Opening a small portion of the ANWR to oil drilling will give the government an influx of revenue in the short term and a substantial amount of oil in the long term, both of which will help the U.S. decrease our dependence on foreign oil and formulate a long-term energy policy—a concept foreign...