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Fight to save Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling is not over
Seattle Times ^
| 12/21/2017
| Seattle Times Editors
Posted on 12/21/2017 2:52:33 PM PST by MAGA2017
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To: marktwain
The caribou don’t have any money to get a speech from the krinton or buy dims.
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:18:27 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: MAGA2017
Ecowankers heads a'poppin'! Nice Christmas present. DBD! 🗼🏭⛽️
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:18:50 PM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: 21twelve
Most of the really expensive infrastructure is already in place, i.e. the Trans Alaska Pipeline. Most, if not all, of the oil from ANWAR will go to Japan, China and other Pacific Rim countries which will benefit the residents of Alaska, reduce out balance of payments and reinforce our standing as a major exporter of crude oil. A win for everyone.
To: TigersEye
so we have 1 out of 10,000 acres will be effected. That is 0.01% of the entire land. Basically it would be like complaining about one gopher hole in your yard and saying your yard is forever ruined.
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:20:41 PM PST
by
LukeL
To: MAGA2017
If you have a problem with ANWR hold a telethon and buy as much land as you can. Save the earth with your own money.
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:21:32 PM PST
by
samadams2000
(Someone important make......The Call!)
To: LukeL
It is a postage on a football field.
It is not fragile wilderness in the least.
It is tundra.
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:22:05 PM PST
by
exit82
(The opposition has already been Trumped!)
To: LukeL
The actual footprint of the drilling platforms is thousands of times smaller than the area being considered for exploration too.
Nice photo essay at this link.
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:24:33 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
To: epluribus_2
There is no doubt that tried and true strategy will once again be employed.
The question is, when do these judges get told to go scratch their collective asses?
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:28:32 PM PST
by
daler
To: MAGA2017
This is a crock. First, the drilling area will be about the size of a large grocery store parking lot. Second, it will be on the Arctic coast, an area of arctic tundra. The tundra extends 60 miles from the coast, where the Brooks Range mountains form a barrier between the tundra and what is always rhapsodically described as the pristine ANWR. The tundra, where temperatures frequently reach a windchill of -60 degrees in the winter, sees very little daylight during December, January, and February, and has almost no life except for caribou, musk oxen, insects, and foxes, most of whom are rabid. In no way would the tiny area to be drilled interfere with the animals, particularly the caribou, who have quintupled in number since the installation of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline in 1977.
This is just the usual ignorant, hysterical ranting of liberals, enemies of America.
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:30:10 PM PST
by
American Quilter
(When does the wall start going up?)
To: LukeL
Basically it would be like complaining about one gopher hole in your yard and saying your yard is forever ruined.Yes, provided you had a five acre yard.
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:31:15 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
To: MAGA2017
The Left will find that within ten years of drilling there, the wildlife population will increase.
To: captain_dave
Normally I would agree, but ANWR is a barren arctic desert wasteland.
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:47:15 PM PST
by
jdsteel
(Give me freedom not more government)
To: MAGA2017
Oh, it’s over Seattle Libtards.
More WINNING !!!!!
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:49:06 PM PST
by
Walrus
(Those who work should eat better than those who d)
To: exit82
“It is not fragile wilderness in the least.”
The idea that the wilderness is “fragile” is pure green clap trap, a myth, a fantasy, a rose unicorn. There is NO “fragile wilderness”, that’s something that never exists, except in the sick mind of lefties because they will always want some victims to exist, in order to be protected (using somebody else’s money).
As George Carlin said, any wilderness has lived through continents drift, massive meteorites bombardments, cataclysmic volcanoes, the dinosaurs (who worried zilch about the environment), countless ice ages and somehow, there would be some “fragile” wilderness somewhere?
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posted on
12/21/2017 3:52:38 PM PST
by
miniTAX
(n)
To: American Quilter
“... sees very little daylight during December, January, and February...”
I worked the North Slope 26 years. The sun sets around Thanksgiving and does not rise above the horizon again until late January. Very little daylight is an understatement.
Of note, the Full Moons of December and January circle in the sky without setting. Ah-roooh, werewolves of ANWR!
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posted on
12/21/2017 4:23:03 PM PST
by
43north
(Drive the scenic route and take the dog (no pit bulls please).)
To: marktwain
ANWAR is flat, mosquito ridden wasteland that will be vastly improved by oil drilling.Nothing there but a few caribou, and the caribou population will probably benefit from the exploration.
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posted on
12/21/2017 4:34:22 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: marktwain
ANWAR is flat, mosquito ridden wasteland that will be vastly improved by oil drilling.
You left out the other indigenous lifeforms. Black flies.
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posted on
12/21/2017 4:37:58 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media and Shariah Socialism.)
To: MAGA2017
"Strong in this one, the butt hurt is."
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posted on
12/21/2017 4:47:06 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Headline: Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack - Mark Steyn)
To: MAGA2017
I'd be interested in knowing just how many people visit this "refuge" that they are paying for, per month, or year, or per decade. Are we talking 200,000 per month, or 2,000, or 20, or 2? Hell, ANY?
You know, the bird watchers and leaf peepers, or bus loads of Chinese and Japanese tourists that try to go up and pet buffalo, or send their kids, that you see at Yellowstone...
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posted on
12/21/2017 4:48:15 PM PST
by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: jdsteel
Right you are, J.D. It IS a wasteland. Nobody goes to the North Slope except oil workers and an extremely small number of troublemakers.
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posted on
12/21/2017 5:11:04 PM PST
by
PawPaw2
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