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all the needed production platforms would occupy an area smaller than Logan Airport

Yes, but this area does not have to be continuous. Little bit here, little bit there - who knows how many platforms could be set up.

The area is desolate yes, but many animals still it their home. The polar bear breeding and birthing areas directly overlap the areas in which exploration and or drilling is to take place. To say that we will not disturb wildlife is to be pretty dense.

With that said, I'm not particularly against drilling ANWR. I just hope we do it with as minimal disruption as possible and I also hope we do it for the right reasons. If we don't have to muck things up, then we shouldn't.

"To say that we will not disturb wildlife is to be pretty dense."

I don't know what kind of maps YOU'RE using, but I've seen the section of ANWR where the drilling would take place. It is 100% devoid of any - ANY - type of life-sustaining steps in the food chain. It is flat, without feature, tree, rill, or trickling brook. There are no fish nor fowl, and the landscape is so unendingly planar it's where Stanley tools calibrates their carpentry levels. That's during the 9 and a half months of Arctic Winter - the only time we'll be up there. Equipment will be moved over roads of ice that will melt in spring. All our activity will cease at that time (annually) and the only readily-apparent evidence that we've ever been there will be wellheads. When a pipeline is developed, you'll likely see the same sort of INCREASE in wildlife as the Alaskan pipeline has experienced - caribou romping on the pipe, because it keeps them warm and increases their fertility.

Fortunately, PICTURES of this section of ANWR are available VERY cheaply. About $6 per 500-photo package. Just go to Office Maxx and buy a ream of Xerox copy paper. That's 500 sheets which precisely depict the part of ANWR we're talking about.

Michael

To say that we will not disturb wildlife is to be pretty dense That's the same thing they said about the caribou in Prudhoe Bay......their numbers have more than tripled since the pipeline was built. They even MATE under it. So, your point doesn't hold water. You're "feeling", rather than thinking.

Your premise is all wrong. They are not asking for permission to drill in little spread out areas. They are talking about drilling in, just what they said a very small contiguous area, about the size of Logan airport. The area they are talking about drilling is a desolate, bugridden, permafrost.The bugs are so bad that it is almost uninhabitable. The strongest bug repellent does not begin to do the job.

I find it very puzzelling that the the enviro freaks and all their Hollywood friends are so concerned about saving this unappealing wilderness, but care nothing about destroying the beautiful beaches of upper Long Island or Nantucket for their own use. When these idiots start tearing down the mini-mansions that are rapidly covering those pristine beaches and restore them to their natural state, I will begin to take seriously their claims of solicitude for the ANWR. They always want to pass laws to control other people, as long as it does not directly effect them.

I see that you are a young medical student. It is a little scarey to me that you still believe that the environmental movement is about saving the environment. You have been brainwashed by liberal professors and teachers.

The environmental movement is about control. It is a cult, designed to replace religion. You know, all morality is relevant, except that which effects the environment. Of course the rules don't apply to the elite, or friends of the elite. You should have figured this out, by now.