I’m not sure if I understand your question, but I would not be for developing the oil fields in ANWR unless one or all of the following were met: 1)exploration and production would be limited to one small, contiguous area. As I mentioned earlier, scientists have shown exploration, even in winter, is a risk to the ecosystem, so it’s area of impact must also be limited and included in your 2,000 or 20,000 acre area you suggest 2)a strict guarantee must be made that no negative impact (as defined by non-industry biologists) will occur outside the contiguous area, and/or 3)all other options (efficiency measures, renewables) have been determined to be too expensive, environmentally harmful, or in some other way unworkable, and that they would create fewer jobs than drilling, and be less secure than ANWR oil.
Am I being too strict, posing unrealistic standards of area limitations, limited impact, and no other options? Please answer to yourself before you read on. Those are the same standards that supporters are promoting to sell their argument. “Impact will be limited to 2,000 acres” and “drilling is essential to provide jobs, security, and economic benefit to all of the U.S.” And that gets back to why I originally posted here: if drilling supporters must resort to misleading the public and politicians, their argument is pretty weak.
I thought my question was fairly simple. Basically it is this, if your state had the resources to develop, and could see the same benefits that my state has and will continue to see, would you be for developing them. I tried to put it into scale based on the size difference of our states, and multiplied figures (land use) you thought were low, and divided figures (number of jobs) you thought were high.
So would you be for developing a total of 270 acres in Nebraska that would pay for the cost of your governmnet, create a permanet fund for the future, and send you a substanial check every year? There was a follow up question in regards to who should make the decision, the residents of Nebraska, or the Federal government.