Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
I lived in Alaska for 4 1/2 years and flew over the North Slope many times. This is an accurate presentation of the area. Once one leaves the arctic circle northbound the land is very formidable.
I would like to add a little more information. A new pipeline across Alaska isn't required since the location for drilling in ANWR is about 160 miles from the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay pipeline where it would be connected. Second the wildlife love the pipeline since it is heated and provides a shelter during the worst times during the winter. Maybe another question should be asked; First, do you know what ANWR is? Answer: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Now a comparison and some perspective?
Note where the proposed development area is? (It's in the "ANWR coastal plain")
This is what the liberals and "greens" show you when they talk about ANWR and they are right these are photographs of ANWR.
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.
And this is what it actually looks like in the summer.
Here are a couple screen shots from Google Earth.
As you can see, the area where they are talking about drilling is a barren wasteland. Oh? And environmentalist 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?
Here's that same spot during the winter.
Hey, this bear seems to really hate the pipeline near prudhoe bay.
The prudhoe bay area accounts for 17% of U.S. Domestic oil production now, why do you think that the environmentalist are lying about ANWR? Remember when Al Gore said that the government should work to artificially raise gas prices to $5.00 a gallon? Well al gore and his fellow global warming group have almost reached their goal! Now that you know that the environmentalist have been lying, what are you going to do about it?
