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Help stop the drilling at ANWR

Monday, July 30, 2007

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The Bush administration is opening the back door to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by letting Shell Oil begin drilling off the coastline this summer. This leaves the entire area vulnerable to a massive oil spill, which is inevitable.

With only one oil spill, there will be a permanent toxic waste site that can never be cleaned up -- because the oil industry has no proven methods for cleaning up oil spills in icy waters.

The irony is that the Bush administration has already predicted that at least one oil spill is "likely to occur," and they are also aware that a toxic oil spill would spread into migratory routes, which would endanger bowhead whales, polar bear birthing grounds and hundreds of thousands of migratory birds. How can this administration be so completely insensitive to anything but profit? It astounds me.

If you have any interest at all in this issue, go to the Natural Resources Defense Council Web site (www.savebiogems.org/arctic/) and find ways that you can help to prevent this drilling from taking place.

Davina Rubin / Napa

10 comment(s)

Realist wrote on Jul 30, 2007 6:30 PM:

" Hmmm...a few thousand acres out of 2 MILLION...small price to pay for getting us off Middle East oil. Drill away. "

be real wrote on Jul 30, 2007 6:56 PM:

" It won't get us off the mid east oil. "

Napa Coop wrote on Jul 30, 2007 8:05 PM:

" Drill, DriLL, DRILL! Get serious about energy, demand will not decrease, only the rate of increase. Increase supply, drill Anwar! "

Kevin wrote on Jul 30, 2007 9:25 PM:

" God bless Shell Oil... "

WakeUp wrote on Jul 31, 2007 10:31 PM:

" Do your homework! The US Dept of Interior has estimated ANWR contains 10.4 billion barrels and maximum production will be 1.4 million barrels per day. That's less than 10% of current US use. Where's the other 90% going to come from? "

Lisa wrote on Aug 1, 2007 8:20 AM:

" Anyone who thinks only a few thousand acres is a small price to pay obviously knows nothing about the Arctic Refuge. Those thousand acres are a prime breeding area and the wildlife center of the refuge. That's why they named it a "wildlife refuge" -- not an oil pit. And all that oil will save you 1 cent a gallon in 10 years. "

Kevin wrote on Aug 2, 2007 9:46 PM:

" I'm glad to see Russia is serious about drilling in the Arctic and has staked a claim to the north pole. If America doesn't have the wherewithall to drill, Russia will, and then turn around and sell it to us... "

chuck wrote on Aug 4, 2007 5:51 AM:

" Ask your paid politician to explain exactly what is and isn't included in the 2,000 acre destruction zone the politician's propaganda machine use to define the damage in ANWR. Drilling on water is much easier environmentally as the waste are dumped overboard. No real problem here, just fish, seals, whales and the associated food chain destroyed. "

Mikey wrote on Aug 12, 2007 2:31 PM:

" You can hug trees and eat granola while i'm finally able to fill my 2 litre compact for under 40 bucks. Get off your horse; there are several different scientific view on ANWR and the truth is this: 99% of everything published about ANWR has been corrupted by politicians and interest groups. so just drill the damn thing and get it over with "

Economist wrote on Aug 14, 2007 12:14 PM:

" 10.4 billion barrels won't do much, considering Saudia Arabia is alledgely sitting on 265 billion barrels and there are serious concerns about a decline in production of their largest fields. The world uses 84 million barrels of oil a day, and the United States consumes 25% of that. That means the United States consumes roughly 8-10 billion barrels of oil EVERY YEAR. You think the ANWR fields, which won't come online for at least 6 years after they begin to drill, will ease our reliance on Middle Eastern oil? "

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