Posted on 12/21/2017 2:52:33 PM PST by MAGA2017
During her nearly four years as President Barack Obamas Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell said, oil companies did not pressure her about opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling.
Politicians, however, were a different story.
Jewell says she heard about the issue repeatedly from Alaskas governor and members of Congress, who were worried about a state budget crisis amid plummeting oil prices and declining local production. The state of Alaska, which lacks a sales tax and an income tax, relies on oil revenues to pay for the vast majority of its state budget, as well as fund popular yearly dividend checks to residents.
Now, under the tax-reform bill just approved by Congress, Alaska is set to get half of the revenue from opening up a coastal portion of the 19-million-acre wilderness area to drilling.
Because the plan to allow drilling on the refuges coastal plain was buried in the GOP tax bill, Republicans in Congress were able to pass the controversial environmental policy with a simple-majority vote and minimal discussion. Efforts by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, to strip ANWR from the tax plan failed.
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The caribou don’t have any money to get a speech from the krinton or buy dims.
Most of the really expensive infrastructure is already in place, i.e. the Trans Alaska Pipeline. Most, if not all, of the oil from ANWAR will go to Japan, China and other Pacific Rim countries which will benefit the residents of Alaska, reduce out balance of payments and reinforce our standing as a major exporter of crude oil. A win for everyone.
so we have 1 out of 10,000 acres will be effected. That is 0.01% of the entire land. Basically it would be like complaining about one gopher hole in your yard and saying your yard is forever ruined.
If you have a problem with ANWR hold a telethon and buy as much land as you can. Save the earth with your own money.
It is a postage on a football field.
It is not fragile wilderness in the least.
It is tundra.
The question is, when do these judges get told to go scratch their collective asses?
This is a crock. First, the drilling area will be about the size of a large grocery store parking lot. Second, it will be on the Arctic coast, an area of arctic tundra. The tundra extends 60 miles from the coast, where the Brooks Range mountains form a barrier between the tundra and what is always rhapsodically described as the pristine ANWR. The tundra, where temperatures frequently reach a windchill of -60 degrees in the winter, sees very little daylight during December, January, and February, and has almost no life except for caribou, musk oxen, insects, and foxes, most of whom are rabid. In no way would the tiny area to be drilled interfere with the animals, particularly the caribou, who have quintupled in number since the installation of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline in 1977.
This is just the usual ignorant, hysterical ranting of liberals, enemies of America.
Yes, provided you had a five acre yard.
The Left will find that within ten years of drilling there, the wildlife population will increase.
Normally I would agree, but ANWR is a barren arctic desert wasteland.
Oh, it’s over Seattle Libtards.
More WINNING !!!!!
“It is not fragile wilderness in the least.”
As George Carlin said, any wilderness has lived through continents drift, massive meteorites bombardments, cataclysmic volcanoes, the dinosaurs (who worried zilch about the environment), countless ice ages and somehow, there would be some “fragile” wilderness somewhere?
“... sees very little daylight during December, January, and February...”
I worked the North Slope 26 years. The sun sets around Thanksgiving and does not rise above the horizon again until late January. Very little daylight is an understatement.
Of note, the Full Moons of December and January circle in the sky without setting. Ah-roooh, werewolves of ANWR!
Nothing there but a few caribou, and the caribou population will probably benefit from the exploration.
You know, the bird watchers and leaf peepers, or bus loads of Chinese and Japanese tourists that try to go up and pet buffalo, or send their kids, that you see at Yellowstone...
Right you are, J.D. It IS a wasteland. Nobody goes to the North Slope except oil workers and an extremely small number of troublemakers.
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