Drilling Alaska: America Needs to Adopt Conservation Practices!

Drilling in Alaska I recently read an article by "Scientific American" (May 2001) called "Arctic Oil and Wildlife Reserve." This article discusses whether science has the ability to clarify the potential economic and ecological risk of drilling into the country's last coastal wilderness reserve. Even after reading this article, we have begun to wonder if we should continue our scientific and technical oil efforts, even if it irreversibly damages our planet.

With US Senate and Alaska's fossil fuel dependence tax cut and passage of work bills, the US must prepare for ANWR drilling. The United States needs to understand and be familiar with the necessity and necessity of reindeer seal of reindeer. Reindeer's safety and living must always be at the forefront of all drilling development dialogue. Drilling should be done in the least important and environmentally friendly way. The extended Reach drill is the answer. ERD is a drilling method that must be used to save a reindeer's reindeer by reducing land damage by 75% and minimizing habitat fragmentation. Alaska needs oil, reindeer reindeer needs ERD

Parliamentarians promoted the start of oil exploration in Alaska's vast Arctic National Wildlife Sanctuary and caused a battle of intense protection for decades. Big problem: The way to drill the coastal plains of evacuation centers can affect the main calves of the Porcupine caribou group, one of the largest and healthiest groups in North America. Last week, the Senate Energy Commission took a step to allow excavation at evacuation centers. If the 7 - year bill becomes law, Republican lawmakers will achieve the goals we've been looking for since the 1980 's.

In 1980, Congress passed the Alaska State-owned Land Protection Act (ANILCA). This bill added 140.3 million acres to Alaska reserve and designated 58,000 acres of Alaska as wilderness. The law contains a rule that Alaska must maintain a survival discount for rural residents. In 1989, the Supreme Court of Alaska decided that state law based on residence was unconstitutional in McDowell versus Alaska lawsuit. However, the courts will support state rights that favor self-sufficiency users. He states that there is a possibility that standards other than the place of residence may be constitutional