Help save the ANWR!!

[winyan]

The Bush administration is pressing forward with its relentless drive to hand over America''s last Arctic wildlands to the oil and gas industry. In late January, the Bureau of Land Management announced it will open nearly 9 million acres in the northwest portion of Alaska''s Western Arctic Reserve for leasing. Energy development in these wetlands, including fragile coastal areas, would cause lasting damage to the habitat of beluga and bowhead whales, millions of shorebirds and waterfoul and Alaska''s largest caribou herd. NRDC and several partner groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the decision.

Continuing its push, the administration is also considering a separate plan to expand oil development on Alaska''s North Slope to sensitive wildlife areas within and adjacent to the reserve. The plan would allow oil companies to construct new and permanent roads, airstrips and drilling pads on 890,000 acres, potentially including crucial caribou calving grounds and other lands placed off-limits to oil development under the Clinton administration. Native Alaskans depend on this unspoiled region for subsistence hunting and fishing.

» The deadline for public comment on this destructive development scheme is March 8.

Click here to take action now!

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[Rank Amateur]

We'd be fools not to look into exploring this wasteland for possible oil deposits.

The Alaska pipeline has not ruined Alaska and getting oil out of this vast land will not be the end of all wildlife up there.

 

[strmrdr]

I agree with RA.

The so called enviremental laws cause more damage than they prevent.
Proof,
California, AZ and Montana wild fires.
They were made much worse by not being able to clean up the forests as has been done in the past.

That said the laws can go too far the other way and let companies rape the land.
There is a balance somewhere in the middle but it never seems to be found.
The laws swing too far one way then too far the other.

 

[winyan]

It's only 6 months worth of oil, folks. Not a limitless reserve. Why take a chance? We'd be much better off conserving our *American* found resources, and stop shipping them off to our so called Allies in the rest of the world. We ship out more American originated crude oil than we actually import from the Mid-East.

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P.S. Remember the Exxon Valdez???

 

[rodentman]

I think we should have Wal-Mart build their largest store up there so the Native Alaskans will have a nice place to shop, rather than having to scrounge for their food. Would create jobs, too. Those who don't want to work for an evil *corporation* can tap the 6 month supply of welfare funds and spread left-wing crapola on the Internet via DSL.

 

[winyan]

The vote on the ANWR's fate is due March 8th or 9th. Please, if you care, click on the link above to show your support!!

Thanks!

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