Scientists find mounting environmental, social, economic effects from oil drilling in Alaska

Associated Press ^ | 3-4-03 | JOHN HEILPRIN

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) --

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I smell a rat. Wasn't there a "report" from The National Academy of Sciences panel a few years ago that wasn't actually a report from the Academy, but a "panel" assembled to obtain a desired result? Any FR memory help?

[Brilliant]

"Scientists" are now experts in sociology and economics?

[chachacha]

some positive, such as better schools and health care, and some negative, like increased diabetes and alcoholism. Well they they go again. Now oil is to blame for alcoholism!

DO LIBERALS EVER TAKE PERSONAL RESPONSABILITY FOR ANYTHING? These peopele get sicker by the day.

[grb]

I'll take a shot of 10w30 with my beer

[ChadGore]

middle east funded scientists find mounting environmental, social, economic effects from oil drilling in Alaska

[dead]

some polar bear dens have been disturbed

Horrors.

[null and void]

'sok, we don't want to drill ANWAR.

KILLING
not
DRILLING

[CyberAnt]

or ULTRA LEFT-WING scientists

[facedown]

NAS went political decades ago.

[Drango]

I blame Ronald Reagan.

[riversarewet]

This is all too funny.

Over the weekend I picke up a DVD on old TV programs (from the 1950s, it was cheap).

Anyway, the action was filmed outside around Long Beach California (as near as I can figure from the story line).

That does not matter as much as my point, which was in one scene the characters are driving past an oil field. For as far as you could see were oil derricks and oil pumps.

Now, if all that drilling did not kill off the good citizens of Long Beach, why are we concerned about some remote spot a thousand miles from no where.

[gitmogrunt]

The sky is falling!!!!!

(enviromentalist barf alert)

[Lucky Lyn]

This article is just plain pathetic, I can't believe that
people actually lap this up!!
My father once told me "Figures don't lie but Liars can figure"!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[MonroeDNA]

Actually, the Caribou do better, breed and thrive, around pipelines. They like the warmth.

[farmfriend]

Happy to be back pinging again.

[GladesGuru]

For what ir is worth, the first white in the Santa Barbara area remarked on the odor, and noticed an oily sheen on the water. He also remarked on the black stuff (tar) with which the navites caulked their craft. There is far less oil from the underwater oil seeps (NATURAL seep, for any decerebrate Libs) on the surface now than then.

Why? Think inverted funnels and a pipe to the surface. Think store the trapped oil. Think cash.

Free markets, not agencies clean up oil seeps best.

[riversarewet]

You are correct. Another area that oil seeps to the surface is now a major tourist attraction, the La Brea tar pits. Funny, how oil on the ground in the middle of Los Angeles is a tourist attraction, but (potential) oil on the ground in some far reaches of Alaska is an enviromental disaster.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[Elkiejg]

This kind of thinking drives me crazy!! What is so hard to understand: We have to depend on ME oil; they can and do hold us hostage at will by turning off their wells; we have a resource for oil in our own country which would enable us to tell them to 'go pound sand'; some idiots are more concerned about wildlife than humans and a strong America - I repeat - what's so hard to understand - drill for Alaskan oil!!