We also have to put flags (like used car lots) over the reserve pit to keep waterfowl from landing there, and fence around the pit to keep animals from drinking out of it. All required on Federal leases. Go Figure.
No!! It can't be!!! Don't you realize that caribou-type critters won't reproduce in oil producing areas !!!! YOU MUST BE KARL ROVE!!!!
And to be serious, the notion that oil drilling will somehow harm the fauna of north Alaska has long been debunked. Heck, wildlife is flourishing around Chernobyl