Fight to save Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling is not over

Seattle Times ^ | 12/21/2017 | Seattle Times Editors

[wally_bert]

The caribou don’t have any money to get a speech from the krinton or buy dims.

[rktman]

Ecowankers heads a'poppin'! Nice Christmas present. DBD! 🗼🏭⛽️

[technically right]

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.

[LukeL]

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.

[samadams2000]

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.

[exit82]

It is a postage on a football field.

It is not fragile wilderness in the least.

It is tundra.

[TigersEye]

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.

[daler]

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?

[American Quilter]

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.

[TigersEye]

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.

[captain_dave]

The Left will find that within ten years of drilling there, the wildlife population will increase.

[jdsteel]

Normally I would agree, but ANWR is a barren arctic desert wasteland.

[Walrus]

Oh, it’s over Seattle Libtards.

More WINNING !!!!!

[miniTAX]

“It is not fragile wilderness in the least.”

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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?

[43north]

“... 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!

[Rummyfan]

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.

[PA Engineer]

ANWAR is flat, mosquito ridden wasteland that will be vastly improved by oil drilling.

You left out the other indigenous lifeforms. Black flies.

[Jeff Chandler]

"Strong in this one, the butt hurt is."

[jonascord]

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...

[PawPaw2]

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.