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.
“... 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!