This brings up a question I've had for some time.... the tree-huggers oppose ANWR drilling/exploration because it will affect the caribou, polar bears, arctic foxes, etc., and because they think crude oil will be all over the place.
They protest the U.S. for merely thinking about the idea. However, none of them protest the Canadian government for actually DOING these things, in more-or-less the same area. The polar bears don't understand or recognize national boundaries, so these areas are really all one and the same to the wildlife. I wonder why the greenies aren't protesting Canada???? [/sarcasm]
Pretty apparent that they don't care about the caribou at all, huh? -- I guess it just proves that the greenies really are America-haters after all.
Well, it's not really the same area. Fort MacMurray is about 1500 miles from Alaska. No polar bears within aboy 800 miles, black bears, though, and moose.
It's also evergreen forest and covers a few square miles of active extraction and processing.