Posted on 12/29/2017 1:03:56 PM PST by packrat35
Thirty years after an oil well was drilled at an Arctic wildlife refuge, the effects are still visible from space.
Slow hurricane day.
Would horsh!t by another name not stink just as sweet!!!
They make these claims like they actually expect us to believe them.
Total balderdash.
Years ago, The Weather Channel built a headquarters building. Today, it still scars the earth and can be seen from space.
The Weather Channel spews out more of their drivel and spells Artic incorrectly .. lmao !
They never stop to gauge the jobs created, the benefits to the shareholders of the companies that invested billions in the projects without any certainty of ROI, and the wells that allow Alaska to remain the only state without a sales tax or an income tax. On the contrary, each citizen receives a yearly stipend, courtesy of the oil production.
You can’t see any of these things from a satellite. You have to check your wallet.
OMG!!!! You can still see the pad where the well was drilled! Oh, the humanity!
It looks like the cleared and graded site is returning to vegetation, albeit slowly due to the short growing season.
The Weather Channel is also complaining about the new ‘wetlands’ the former ‘cause celebre’ of the Eco movement.
” ... new extended reach drilling allows for one single drilling platform to cover a 28,000 ft radius—larger than the size of Washington D.C.”
“According to U.S. Geological Survey estimates, the North Slope contains an estimated 10.4 billion barrels of oil.
This is more than the known oil reserves of entire countries that the U.S. currently imports oil from, including: Mexico, Angola, Azerbaijan, Norway, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
At peak production, ANWR could supply up to 1.45 million barrels of oil per day.
This is more than the U.S. imports from Saudi Arabia every day.
Alternatively, 1.45 million barrels of oil per day is over one quarter of what the U.S. imports from OPEC countries each year.”
https://naturalresources.house.gov/anwr/
I might even be visible a thousand years from now. So?
What’s the big deal? If a herd of caribou ran through there you’d see that years from now, too.
Leftist environmentalists bringing this up right now because the recently signed tax reform bill opens up a tiny area—a few hundred acres—to drilling in a reserve the size of South Carolina. According to them, the entire Arctic will be despoiled because of this very limited area opened to drilling.
Sorry, I don’t buy it. The only ones who will believe their lies and exaggerations are other radical environmentalists.
The photos were take from a helicopter, not a satellite. The pad is just about gone.
“Would horsh!t by another name not stink just as sweet!!!”
Road Apples?
They had problems with earth made spacecraft speeds too.
Ha ha ha!
Arctic refuge scarred!
How big is the Arctic refuge? How bid is the area showing ANY signs of damage.
This is like getting a flu shot and saying that imperceptible dot that healed overnight “scarred” your entire body.
What a bunch of crappola. I’m sorry the Weather Channel was ever founded. How is is that someone can create something brand new like Weather Channel and in the course of 10 years it is completely hijacked by liberals.
Why the hell can’t Conservatives infiltrate and conquer liberal places? I don’t get it.
Now, I ask you...
How does that narrow the AGW ignoramuses down?
Have these morons ever looked at oil patches in the rest of the USA?
To clarify, the headline at the source is correctly spelled.
Beyond that, the affient sayeth not.
Well, next time I'm in space, I'll close my eyes when we fly by that spot.
WOW complete with scary music too!
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