Oil Drilling in Alaska

Have any of you ever been to the North Slope? Or are you saying no because of what you have heard from media?
My whole family works on the Alaska Pipeline....I have been there and they have been there since the 1970's. As anything we are in the way of all wild life...EVERYWHERE. The roads, the new houses that are being built.....our neighborhoods and cities are far more dirty than one square foot of the "North Slope"......
They put so much energy into not bothering and not making too much of an impact on the environment and wildlife I find it incredible what they have accomplished.
I understand that to build something so big, we of course are gonna be a bother......I didnt see you all putting up a stink when you wanted to cut down that tree and put YOUR house in that birds homeland????
I say Drill and be very careful, as we have the smarts and love to do that. Drillers and environmentalists need to come together and figure out the best way to do that.

Quoting mst777:

Yeah like NOW two years later.
As startingover says a lot of what the politically correct and environmentalists say is just a bunch of hype to get their own way. And look at how Al Gore is turning 'Global Warming' into a get rich type scam because the public is buying it hook, line and sinker.

Well my immediate concern for this week is the PC environmentalists are getting 4th of July canceled in various communities because *it surprises the birds*

Have any of you actually been here?

Furthermore have any of you actually been to the north slope?

I don't believe future drilling of oil is going to hurt the "wildlife"...

I do however believe that they need to look for alternate fuel/energy!

Sooner or later (apparently sooner in the case of oil), it's going to run out.

So should they drill? Probably if they can't figure an alternative out.

Should they come up with new/renewable resources and spend less time trying to create a pill that will stop a cow from emitting methane? Yeah I say so...

The only real Pro which is ALSO a Con: It's a temporary fix to a larger problem

what is the real meaning of the term environment? It's relationship with the plants.

i hate it loser

it is spelled preserve not perserve dork, and by the way, for every one percent of oil america can produce compared to the middle east it would reduce our oil prices by 10 percent. put that in your pipe and smoke it. There are at least 15 billion barrels in anwr and that is the lowest guess, if anyone offered me $1.50 for a gallon of gas i would go for it in a heartbeat. The Arctic National Wildlife PRESERVE has millions of acres and the most to extract the oil would be 2,000 acres.

on another note, the environmentalists who say drilling would damage the caribou don't tell you how it would hurt them, when you dig deeper, the only thing drilling does is when the pipelines get warm, the caribou have a longer breeding season and it actually increases the number of caribou, which means MORE HUNTING! yah!

Drilling will most definitely affect the wilderness. There are about 50 species living in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, including the endangered polar bears and caribou. Drilling could even lead to some of these endangered species' extinction.

Also, the Gwich’in Indian tribe survives by hunting and gathering and they rely on the migratory Caribou. If oil drilling were to be allowed in the Refuge, it could cause the migrations to change, which in turn would be detrimental to the Gwich’in Indians.

Not to mention that this could be the gateway to allowing other areas of protected wilderness to be used for drilling. What's next? Yellowstone or Yosemite?

Chuck we do not need to oil. Our nation alone uses 20 million barrels of oil a day and we are sucking the earth dry. We need to practice weaning ourselves off of oil. It's going to run out sooner than you think.

I think that we should drill in Alaska becuase it is a HUGE state and the animals and plants do not cover up the whole state.