There is no reason for the us to stop exploration in the Arctic. lawyers with an extreme position dominate the environmental debte. They will and they do hamper growth in Alaska. Their 'world of awareness' places this country in peril. If these people are so concerned about the 'world' why aren't they in China or Russia or Southeast Asia where the same type of industrial contamination we confronted 50 years ago is going at 200% rate overt here, right now.
Real pictures of Northern Alaska.
If you see a movie or TV show with people standing around in ANWAR and they aren't either completely covered with bugs (white socks, mosquitoes, gnats black flies) or if they're not completely insulated with arctic gear they’re not in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
click Don Young’s constituents’ know this is possible. Oil could be pumped through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline with-in a much shorter period of time then pundits will tell you. We must stop listening to overly paranoid environmentalists. Where is the environmental destruction all of Alaska's 580,000 square miles of territory? The United States government owns 1/3 of it. Our own regulators prevent oil and gas development in Alaska.
Senator Read. How many years to get the oil? Why don't we get our oil right here? We could collect the money to develop alternative energies, like Uncle Ted said? Why not?
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