Oil Drilling the Artic refuge~

[snow]

Thoughts on this matter?


[h=1]Construction planned to prepare Alaska's Arctic refuge for oil drilling[/h]



[FONT=&quot]The Trump administration said on Thursday it would spend $4 million on construction projects in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in preparation for oil drilling in the nation's biggest wildlife park.
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[FONT=&quot]In an announcement that touted planned improvements to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service visitor facilities, the Department of the Interior said it has approved spending on projects for "Oil Exploration Readiness" in the coastal plain of the Arctic refuge.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Trump administration is pushing for an oil lease sale in the refuge to be held as early as next year. The tax-overhaul bill passed by the U.S. Congress last December includes a provision mandating two oil lease sales, each offering at least 400,000 acres (161,874.26 hectares), within seven years.[/FONT]

 

[LBrandt]

If its going to make it look like western ND I vote NO.

 

[scrotcaster]

The only kind of oil exploration i would be in favor of is non-surface or minimal disruption type of activies,, all other i give a hard no to.. once it is touched by the hand of man it can never be reversed..

 

[snow]

I worked the alaskan "slope" from the brooks range to Nome, heaven forbid they open this refuge up! fragile eco system and truely the last frontier.They'll have it trashed out in a few years,roads,dumping ,oil spills etc,

 

[Narcs]

It will be a damn shame if oil drilling actually occurs there. Some places need to remain sacred and untouched, no matter the money and politics. I wish there was more "conserve" within the "conservative" party these days, on many different levels. Not sure what happened. Wild critters need wild places.

 

[measure-it]

To open up the Arctic Refuge to oil & gas exploration is a huge sin. Let's leave some natural beauty alone! The US has a oil storage surplus that would blow most peoples' minds, and the only drive for this is greed and money. My grandkids deserve much better!

 

[westwolfone]

Too many people is what happened.

Kind of the underlying reason for a lot of problems.

 

[snow]

west,couldn't agree more,folks fail to realize we are over populating but thats another thread.

 

[watson]

Obama had it blocked,. Everyone's gold headed baffoon gave it the thumbs up

 

[LBrandt]

HEMO votes NO and so does the other 7 familys that live there.

 

[PrairieGhost]

Wow when I came up with conservation thoughts everyone was ticked. The pictures you see on the anti drill commercials are not what ANWR looks like. Not the drilling sites anyway. The drilling sites they want are 1% of the refuge along the coastline. It's flat with no mountains or mountain streams. That said I would say let them slant drill from offshore. I have no problem with them getting the oil, but I do have a problem with them ripping the place apart. The Porcupine caribou herd is doing just fine and the ultra left told us the Alaskan pipeline would destroy it. I think we need to know more before we jump on either band wagon. You know both sides are going to lie to us.

 

[eyexer]

First off nobody goes there so non of us will ever see it. Secondly it's a tiny tiny amount of the refuge that will be touched. There is more natural beauty for one to see in Alaska alone than one could ever see anyway. And anything that drives liberals crazy I'm all for.