Sunday, July 13, 2008

The Truth about Drilling for Oil in ANWR (Alaska)


I found this on The Heritage Foundation Blog site and felt it is worth republishing here. This summarizes what is really going on with ANWR and Oil Drilling and it's all true! Take time to see this and open your mind:

 First, do you know what ANWR is?


ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.


Now, a comparison:



 And some perspective:



Note where the proposed development area is (in the ‘ANWR Coastal Plain’):


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This is what the Democrats, liberals and ‘greens’ show you when they talk about ANWR. And they are right, these are photographs of ANWR:


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Isn’t ANWR beautiful? Why should we drill here (and destroy) this beautiful place?


Well, that’s not exactly the truth.


Do you remember the map?


The map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain.


Do those photographs look like a coastal plain to you?


What’s going on here?


The answer is simple.


That is NOT where they are wanting to drill!


This is what the proposed exploration area ACTUALLY looks like in the winter:


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And this is what it ACTUALLY looks like in the summer:


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 Here are a couple screen shots from Google Earth:


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 As you can see, the area where they are talking about drilling is a barren wasteland.


 Oh, and they say that they are concerned about the effect on the local wildlife.


Here is a photo (shot during the summer) of the ‘depleted wildlife’ situation created by drilling around Prudhoe Bay. Don’t you think that the Caribou really hate that drilling?


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Here’s that same spot during the winter:


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 Hey, this bear seems to really hate the pipeline near Prudhoe Bay, which accounts for 17% of U.S. domestic oil production.


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3 comments:

rainer said...

Quite an eye opener to the realty at ANWAR

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