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...briefly recap the facts: ANWR is an immense tract of untamed land in northern Alaska originally created in 1960 by noted caribou-hugger President Dwight D. Eisenhower. For almost 20 years, oil companies have had their eyes set on the coastal regions of that sanctuary, where there may be oil. May be, of course, because no one really knows; current estimates are that ten billion barrels of oil may be extractable. Thus, in a decade or two, drilling thirty coastal locations in ANWR could theoretically provide the U.S. with four percent of its current oil needs, at its peak capacity...
Proponents of ANWR drilling have been improperly minimizing the effects of oil development for years. They like to cite the growth of the caribou herd at Prudhoe Bay—a Northern Alaska drilling site that has been open for business since 1977—where caribou wander daily through industrial sites. But they ignore evidence that total herd growth is sustained by the females whose fecundity is least affected by industrialization. For the shrinking ANWR caribou herds, the impact of drilling on fertility could sound a death knell. Drilling proponents like to point to the small physical footprint...
ARCTIC POPULATIONS Indigenous people from Alaska to Canada to Siberia rely on fish, polar bears, seals and caribou for food, clothing and trade. As warming imperils these animals, it also threatens a way of life that has been unchanged for centuries...
...plight of the Western Arctic Reserve captured my sympathy. This preserve is the habitat of thousands of species, many rare or endangered. The center of this administration’s proposed oil drilling site, Lake Teshekpuk, is the summer home of millions of migratory birds, as well as caribou, wolves, foxes and polar bears. People live there too. The Inupiat Eskimos have lived in the region for 8,000 years. But despite their long claim to the region, the Bush administration doesn’t seem to care...
...formation over the lagoon and the musk ox roaming in emerald meadows dotted with wild cotton. Some two-thirds of the local diet still derives from hunting and fishing. In the diamond light of late summer, whole families forage for salmonberries, which the elders eat mixed with grated caribou fat. ("Eskimo ice cream," they call it.) The kids prefer it with Cool Whip...