Alaska drilling to have chilling effect (ANWR)

NORTH HALEDON - Warren Smith made his first visit to "the lower 48" this week, leaving his small Yukon village to speak to groups around North Jersey about his people, the indigenous Gwich'in Athabaskan, their 1,000-year reliance on caribou, and federal legislation that could change their way of life.

Smith was joined by Jillian Morrissey, an environmental activist who has spent the past three years photographing Alaska's wildlife and fighting to protect the caribou and the Gwich'in people from oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Wednesday night the pair brought images and stories of life on the refuge's still-pristine, but oil-rich, coastal plain to the Buehler Cultural Center. More than 30 people, many members of the Sierra Club's North Jersey chapter, listened as Morrissey narrated a slide-show of her nature photographs in the center's darkened log-cabin. With the refuge protected against human intrusion, latitude and weather define the landscape, she explained. Tiny wildflowers soak up the 24-hour sun of arctic summers and a perpetually frozen underground stops deep root growth, leaving the tallest trees just knee-high.

Morrissey has walked and biked across the United States giving her presentation on the refuge's distinct eco-system and why the ban on drilling there should remain. This week her cause was more urgent than ever, she said. With the greater Republican majority in the Senate, she said, drilling proponents have their best chance yet to pass drilling legislation.

Arctic drilling is one of President Bush's top energy priorities, and Republicans in the House and Senate have said they would push for legislation that allows it early this year, according to an Associated Press report Wednesday. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said he would filibuster such a bill, but Republicans could put the drilling legislation into the budget resolution, which cannot be filibustered.

"Never before has the opposing side been closer to winning this battle," said Dennis Schvejda, co-chair of the New Jersey Sierra Club's conservation committee. Schvejda and his wife, Tina, have visited the refuge, hosted Gwich'in speakers, and lobbied New Jersey legislators to maintain the drilling ban. Schvejda said that, with only a few exceptions, New Jersey congressional delegates oppose opening the refuge to drilling.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was created by President Dwight Eisenhower and expanded under President Jimmy Carter. Its 19 million acres of roadless tundra are home to 135 migratory bird species, polar, black, and grizzly bears, wolves, musk ox, caribou, and scores of plants and wildflowers, Morrissey noted. Most of the preserve is already open to exploration. About 1.5 million acres of its coastal plain, an area along the Arctic Sea where a 125,000-strong Porcupine Caribou herd comes each summer to birth calves and feed, are protected; it is this area drilling supporters wish to open for oil development.

Smith said that opening the area to oil exploration would threaten the caribou, the Gwich'in's main food source. Like many younger people in the 8,000-person tribe, Smith has a foot in the modern world and another in traditional culture. He works as a carpenter, wears a baseball cap and baggy khaki pants. He spends weeks or months each year hunting caribou as the herd migrates across Canada, into Alaska, and back.

Morrissey described the results of oil exploration in another part of the refuge, Prudhoe Bay - among them oil spills, discarded machinery, damaged tundra and disrupted wildlife.

The oil in the untouched area of the refuge would supply about six months of gasoline to the nation, she said.

Many Alaskans support opening the refuge to more oil exploration, Morrissey acknowledged. Many work in the oil industry, and every Alaskan receives a yearly oil dividend check.

"The caribou is something important, something that we need and live off," he said. "Why take something that can last and keep lasting for thousands of years and take it away for 200 days of oil?"

"The caribou is something important, something that we need and live off,"

Typical left-wing, secular humanist, pagan diatribe. Nothing new, so silly, sure, really important for Santa Clause maybe. Haven't they ever heard that the pipeline will generate heat and will be a magnet for the beloved caribou?

Bad, big oil, Drilling in that barren wasteland in Alaska, shame on you. And HOW do these hypocrite libs. heat their homes and FLY TO ALASKA to see these smelly and dirty animals. How do they drive to work and in what? Do their children take a school bus, transported in a SUV or 4-door sedan or do they walk?

Hey, libs.

The human being is something important, something that we need and should live.

I know save the bears, spotted owls, humpback whale, caribou, wild flowers, brine shrip, algae, weeds, turtle eggs and abort God's image and children. You sure make a lot of sense.

Did you ever think of the reason why we purchased Alaska? Could it be that we bought it for it's natural resources? Nah, that practical reason never occurred to your dumb brain, did it? Baal worshipers!

In Defense of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline

In 1973 two things happened:

1. The Endangered Species Act was enacted where animals, trees and scum in rain puddles became protected under law.

2. Roe vs. Wade where 9 mortals, allowed it to be made possible for Humanity to slaughter, burn, aspirate and sever Human Babies, created in God's image and likeness. Since then, humanity, and the USA, spiraled in a downward trend.

Touch a turtle egg or its nest, Canadian goose or a spotted OWL and get a yr. in jail and a $50K fine, and don't cut down certain trees or fill in that puddle! abort a child, get paid $750.00. And we wonder why there is NO respect for HUMAN life created in God's image.

This is why we need to inculcate a culture of life in our society in general and in churches and schools (starting in kindergarten) . People tend to think of children as disposable items.

A pro-life education Program

It's a grievous sin that animals and turtle eggs are afforded more protections and rights than a human fetus and baby created in God's Image with a soul.

Genesis 9:3
Every creature that is alive shall be yours to eat; I give them all to you as I did the green plants.

Man:
Kill the humans (abortion) and save the Bears, the spotted owls, the Canadian Geese and the whales and don't crack that turtle egg!!

You can get fined up to $10,000 for messing with those eggs and baby-killing physicians get paid government and private money $$$ to kill humans! Go figure.

The Endangered Species Act of 1973

The Endangered Species Act of 1973
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973
Penalties and Enforcement

The number of species listed (plants and animals, NOT humans) as threatened or endangered
Species Information
Threatened and Endangered Animals and Plants
10 FALLACIES IN THE ABORTION DEBATE
The Endangered Species Program

Page 4 Sec 3 (c)(8) don't crack those eggs, one might end the "life" of a bird, fish or turtle. I guess certain "mammals" (humans) do not apply.

Science and the ESA

The Govt. recognizes that a fertilized egg from an animal is "alive" and protected by LAW (The Endangered Species Act of 1973) and when an "alive" person created in God's image is growing and living in his mother, he's termed and given the moniker of just a blob of "unlive" protoplasm or tissue which can be aspirated if it's the mother's "choice" to do so with no protections under the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.

But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for EVERY careless word they have spoken."--Jesus (Matt. 12:36)

In Florida, women dying in bed have less rights than turtle eggs! (FL Law 370, US ESA of 1973)

turtle sign

Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21

sustainable development, euphemism for abortion, population control, control of Sovereign American Land by UN committees, etc. Planning to control populations and trees which lowers the creation of man to the level of a plant or tree in a forest. And people wonder why in 1973 the USA made the destruction of the baby in the womb legal while during the same year enacted the Endangered Species Act which gave federal legal rights and protections to spotted owls, alligators, humpback whales, species of weeds, algae, fish, spiders, brine shrimp, etc. and yet we laugh when these demonic, satanic and pagan UN programs are developed and implemented. In addition, land/property rights happen to be a Holy Institution granted by G-d to humanity through Abraham and Moses; it's nothing to take lightly or jokingly.

Firefighters die while fish live.

The Preamble of the UN Earth Charter states:

… we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature.... Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations.

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