Need (GOOD) information on ANWR

[youngred]

Tonight I'm attending a lecture to be given by the Deputy to the Secretary of the Interior for Alaska Affairs. The top administration point person for Alaska....basically meaning ANWR. I expect a hard pitch for drilling in ANWR and any facts or items I should study to have to back up/grill them on would be appreciated.

[scarletwoman]

1. Try these links:

This one first: http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/anwrindex.html

Now take at look at a Native p.o.v.:

http://www.alaska.net/~gwichin/index.html

http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues00/Co11042000/CO_11042000_Caribou.htm

http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co04072001/CO_04072001_Caribou.htm

http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/VirtualClassroom/natcongressam.html

http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/anwralbert1.html

http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/VirtualClassroom/anwracf2.html

http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/intro.html

http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/anwr.html

http://www.taiga.net/

Official Federal Government publication:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0028-01/

Here's a good one on the numbers:
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/waller/article/0,9565,170983,00.html

Below are some of the main wilderness (no drilling) advocacy goups:

http://www.alaskawild.org/campaigns_arctic.html

http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic/

http://www.savearcticrefuge.org/

http://www.ienearth.org/arctic_refuge.html#factsheet

http://www.wilderness.org/OurIssues/Arctic/

http://www.sierraclub.org/wildlands/arctic/

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Hopefully enough to get you well-armed with knowledge...

sw

[youngred]

3. Thank You

very much

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Here's some info here

Try contacting these folks: http://www.foe.org/ Also check with the sierra club: http://www.sierraclub.org/



"The industry's supporters have long argued that drilling in the nation's largest remaining wilderness is somehow important to national security, despite the U.S. Geological Survey's estimate that the refuge contains the recoverable equivalent of only six months worth of oil -- a supply that wouldn't even be available for another 10 years.

They claim that drilling would have no impact on wildlife, despite the fact that development would convert the refuge's 1.5 million acre coastal plain into a carbon copy of the sprawling oil fields next door in Prudhoe Bay -- a vast industrial complex filled with toxic wastes and more air pollution than most American cities."

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1108-03.htm


Oil companies have rights to 96.5 percent of the coastal plain. The 3.5 percent in ANWR is not needed by them.

A reduction in fuel consumption and greater gas mileage in cars would easily compensate for any oil drilled.

http://wcs.org/home/wild.northamaerica/anwr/1031/


"We left 95 percent of the areas with potential petroleum reserves in Alaska open to exploration and outside the boundaries of the protected areas," Carter said yesterday. "My only disappointment was that we did not firmly act to designate the coastal plain as wilderness."

"We don't need it," he added. "Its contribution would be tiny, six months of the country's petroleum needs. It would destroy the wilderness up there and one of the continent's last great predator-prey ecosystems."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0203-01.htm

[youngred]

4. Thank you

some interesting stuff there

[youngred]

5. Kick

C'mon folks I'm taking on the Administration's spokesperson here!

[scarletwoman]

6. What else do you need?

I think there's some really good info in the links posted -- is there something else that you're specifically looking for? I'll try to help if I can.

sw

[youngred]

7. All this is good

I'm just looking for the most info I can. :shrug: just wondering if people have anything further.

:-)

[scarletwoman]

8. Well, here's hoping some more folks have some good stuff...

:kick:

[northofdenali]

9. Hey, youngred, these folks are local and very helpful:

Northern Alaska Environmental Center based in Fairbanks http://northern.org/artman/publish/

Also, altho it's a state agency, these folks have a lot on ANWR:

Alaska Public Lands Information Center
http://www.nps.gov/aplic/center/

Here's a photo for you as a bonus! Taken 2 autumns ago on a hike:

This is in the foothills of the Brooks Range just barely inside ANWR

[scarletwoman]

10. Yaaaaay! Thanks for coming through!

I was hoping one of our Alask DUers would show up here!

sw
:hi:

[northofdenali]

11. No problemo, kiddo! If you'd like some more pictures

I have a few. They kind of put paid to whoever said there's "nothing" up there! It's gorgeous - even the barren parts. The tundra and taiga have flowers so tiny, you could put 3 on a thumbnail.

taiga and tundra ANWR from KTUU TV

[youngred]

14. Thank You!!

That's a breautiful picture and the info helps a lot.

Do you know abything about Drue Pearce? Realize she wasn't your rep but anything might help

[Ripley]

12. Here's a site for you YR:

http://arcticprotection.org

Good luck and Give 'em Hell!

[youngred]

15. Thanks

I'll see if I can get her to turn down next year's invite ;-)

[Festivito]

13. Remember that office desks only take up four square inches.

Just as towering overhead pipelines only take up a few acres of land.

A friend up in Alaska tells me that there are many people crawling over ANWR up there. I'd bet someone is paying those people expecting a return on investment.

Good luck.