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In the Blink of an Eye, a Hunt for Oil Threatens Pristine Alaska
New York Times ^ | December 3, 2018 | Henry Fountain and Steve Eder

Posted on 12/03/2018 1:40:01 PM PST by reaganaut1

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To: reaganaut1

Such a pristine lovely picture the NY slime paints for us all. Caribou frolicking in a vast tundra where birds sing and rabbits hop. If Hillary or Obama sed we are drilling tomorrow the NY slime would be calling it a barren waste land of no use to anyone


21 posted on 12/03/2018 1:57:45 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: reaganaut1

“a federally protected place of austere beauty that during a recent flyover was painted white by heavy snowfall”

THAT’S RACIST!!!!!


22 posted on 12/03/2018 1:58:18 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Mr. K
Yeah, that particular area is a real paradise.


23 posted on 12/03/2018 1:58:54 PM PST by Salamander (My Soul's On Fire...)
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To: arrogantsob

Yeah, but some of these people don’t know that. They will be out there marching to protect the penguins.


24 posted on 12/03/2018 1:59:04 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: gigster

Yep, like clockwork...


25 posted on 12/03/2018 1:59:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: BeauBo

Even the earthquake didn’t damage the pipeline.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2018/12/01/oil-and-gas-industry-reports-precautionary-shutdowns-little-earthquake-damage/


26 posted on 12/03/2018 1:59:38 PM PST by Atlantan
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To: seawolf101

Penguins taste like chicken.

Fishy, greasy chicken.


27 posted on 12/03/2018 2:00:21 PM PST by Salamander (My Soul's On Fire...)
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To: reaganaut1

Sara’s fault! Hallelujah!


28 posted on 12/03/2018 2:00:50 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Mr. K
BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO PRETTY

So, here's the deal:

Everybody who's ever visited there, vote NO.
Everybody who's ever known somebody who visited there, vote NO.
Everybody who's ever seen a postcard from there, vote NO.
The rest of you, vote for LOWER GAS PRICES.

Let's see how it turns out...

29 posted on 12/03/2018 2:02:20 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You can’t fart while exploring for or producing oil in Alaska without a permit, yet, our beautiful American landscape is polluted with hundreds of thousands of windmills whose useful life is 10 years. BTW, all of those windmills require enormous amounts of oil to be seviced each year and their only profits are the subsidies that the US Taxpayers give their owners. How are we poing to reclaim the lad when we have to remove these windmill carcasses? When I travel across the company I weep when I see the thousands of acres that are now eyesores.


30 posted on 12/03/2018 2:03:56 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: reaganaut1

SOB...were all gonna die but women and children first.


31 posted on 12/03/2018 2:04:20 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: reaganaut1

New York Times == Fake News


32 posted on 12/03/2018 2:04:52 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: reaganaut1

Keep in mind that ANWR is the size of South Carolina and the area set aside for drilling is about the size of the Los Angeles airport. I wish to hell they’d keep things in perspective.


33 posted on 12/03/2018 2:04:54 PM PST by econjack
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To: reaganaut1

Alaska isn’t pristine. It looks a glacier wrecked the place recently.


34 posted on 12/03/2018 2:05:37 PM PST by GingisK
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To: reaganaut1
[A] federally protected place of austere beauty in which these urban poofters wouldn't last 10 minutes ...
35 posted on 12/03/2018 2:05:56 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Salamander

It may not look like much to you but to the endangered
Arctic rat lungworm it’s paradise!

Authors note: While the Arctic rat lungworm has not been
sighted in the area, the Southwestern Rat lungworm could
possibly survive under those frigid conditions an so the
Arctic Rat lungworm’s habitat must be protected.

Note #2. The Rat lungworm is not threatened by wind turbines
so those may be built there.

How are the doggies?


36 posted on 12/03/2018 2:06:21 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: reaganaut1

I suspect these morons have never hiked the beautiful tundra. They do not realize that it’s a little different than they believe it is.

And these asses never learn. I remember when they told us how the Alaska pipeline would destroy the environment. The literally caribou gather around it today.


37 posted on 12/03/2018 2:08:14 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
How much environmental damage was done by the Alaska pipeline,

It's a highway for bears ...


38 posted on 12/03/2018 2:08:54 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: reaganaut1; Dilbert San Diego

“An even shorter evaluation of the consequences of seismic testing is nearing completion. Within months, trucks weighing up to 90,000 pounds could be conducting the tests across the tundra as they try to pinpoint oil reserves.”

The same process is now gearing up offshore: http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3710256/posts?page=5#5

The Trump Administration has opened the largest areas to exploration and development in US history. Now they are about to start mapping the deposits with sonic vibrations. Then they will bid on leases for production. It will probably take a few years to develop those fields, but they will then produce for decades - as long as the leases are awarded before Trump leaves office.

In the case of Alaska, the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve may well be the size of South Carolina, but the area expected to be developed (excluding the roads and a connection to the existing pipeline) is only about the size of Dulles Airport, outside of DC.

Without the product from this new field in Alaska, the existing Trans Alaska Pipeline is on track to become economically infeasible, as North Slope production declines, which would be devastating for the State’s budget.

The Federal revenue from these fields, and the high paying jobs and supporting supply chain from these developments will be a world class wealth creator for a generation.

MAGA!


39 posted on 12/03/2018 2:09:51 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: seawolf101

And I am guessing they have never experienced a tundra mosquito...or a billion of them.


40 posted on 12/03/2018 2:10:33 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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