Not sure what the panic is about. They don't have to cut down a single tree.
Posted on 08/18/2020 9:54:41 AM PDT by JV3MRC
U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is set to approve oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Liberals and journalists lost their minds.
The Wall Street Journal reported that “[t]he Trump administration approved an oil leasing program for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Monday, opening up the pristine 19-million-acre wilderness to drilling for the first time.” The Journal said that it would be “difficult to unwind the decision should Democrats recapture the White House in November.” Perhaps that’s why Twitter users like NBC News’s Mary Murray called President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest move an “environmental atrocity” on Twitter.
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Good, it’s what we bought it for.
I had read that the federal government has somewhere between 70 and 80 trillion dollars worth of oil on its land.
So what do they do they lease it out? Oil companies pay the federal government?
I have no clue. It seems like that should generate a lot of $$
Oil prices may have been 80 or 90 a barrel then when I read that article
Not sure what the panic is about. They don't have to cut down a single tree.
A better name for ANWR would be PAWOR (the “Part of Alaska that has Oil Reserves”) because that’s why Clinton designated that part as off limits.
When environmentalists sing the praises of the unique features of that “pristine wilderness” I like to ask them “what does that part of Alaska have that the rest of Alaska doesn’t”?
And the real answer to that question is: oil.
This was part of the bill passed and signed into law - Alaska has wanted this for decades, particularly the native peoples of the area. Now they act like this was a surprise that what was already put into place by statute is now moving forward?
Fake outrage.
I’m a very big fan of wildlife. But, as I recall, last time we OK’d drilling in the Arctic, wildlife got a boost because there was more available food, thanks to drillers’ garbage dumps.
Isn’t the drilling spot a tiny fraction of the Arctic?
Should drop everyone of those enviroweenies in the middle of that pristine wilderness, without bug repellent.
They will not survive. It is a giant, flat tundra swamp. With 140 metric tons of mosquitos.
Pristine? Is that how we now define an Arctic wasteland aka, as a Tundra?
Once again, this is one of the reasons we elected Donald Trump. Drilling there is decades overdue. No other republican ever gave this anything more than lip service.
after all the oil and gas are sucked up, can’t it just be put back to the way it is...
Those people should be handcuffed to a fellow traveler journalist during their time in the wilderness.
I remember seeing a description of the drilling area for ANWR.
It said that if you think of the ANWR area as a tennis court, the area open for drilling was the size of a postage stamp in one corner.
Seems that I recall a comparison of the proposed drilling area to all of ANWR as equivalent to a postcard laying on a football fied.
Beat me by 16 seconds!
If Trump wanted to carpet the land with giant China-built windmills to chop up the birds, they’d be praising him
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Image Lying Liberal Media will show:
I just wonder if any oil companies or "wild catters" will bother with oil values being so low. A number of "fracting" companies are having a tough go since their process now costs more that the returns they get from the oil.
I'm still not sure why the Saudis made a deal with Russia to lower the cost of oil. Maybe someone can explain that to me.
Not only that, but there are many photos on the Net of "sacred" caribou lounging about and even on top of the current pipeline.
Face it, the enviroweenies don't want anything touched by humankind. I believe if they could erase every city, every structure, and send the world back to the 1600's, they would do it. Hey, weenies, good luck with the next plague.
Its about the size of a period on a 4X8 sheet of plywood. Its nothing.
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