Folks in Alaska will be happy about this. They have been wanting to drill forever. The new jobs and influx of revenues will be good for them. I'm sure that there will be 1000s of enviro nuts just waiting for 1 drop of oil to hit the ground and they will claim environmental disaster.
More crude oil leaks naturally into the ocean every year from undersea oil reserves that has been spilled into the ocean accidentally since the beginning of the 20th century.
I completely agree. My dad lives in Alaska and from the sound of it many Alaskans wanted that drilling to go through. The only people who really didn't want it were all the neopagan greenpeace liberals who moved up there just to try to stop it.
Those fruit cakes are such dirt bags, they probably think saying the word "OIL" causes environmental disasters.