FIRST, do you know what ANWR is?
ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Reserve
NOW – A Comparison
And some Perspective?
NOTE WHERE THE PROPOSED
DEVELOPMENT AREA IS!
(It’s in the ANWR Coastal Plain)
DRILLING WILL BE IN THE RED BOX
OF THE GREEN SECTION.
BUT WAIT!
THIS IS WHAT ONE PARTY,
LIBERALS, AND GREENS SHOW YOU
WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ANWR,
and they are right. These ARE
photographs of ANWR
ISN’T ANWR BEAUTIFUL?
WHY SHOULD WE DRILL HERE (AND DESTROY)
THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE?
WELL, THAT’S NOT EXACTLY THE TRUTH
Do you remember the map?
The map showed that the proposed drilling
area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain
Do those photographs look like a Coastal
Plain to you?
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?
THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE.
THAT IS NOT WHERE THEY ARE
WANTING TO DRILL!
THIS IS WHAT THE PROPOSED
EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY LOOKS
LIKE IN THE WINTER.
AND THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY
LOOKS LIKE IN THE SUMMER.
HERE ARE A COUPLE SCREEN SHOTS
FROM GOOGLE EARTH.
The yellow ticks are the areas
being proposed for drilling.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THE AREA WHERE
DRILLING IS PROPOSED
IS A BARREN WASTELAND.
THE PROPOSED DRILLING AREA
CAN BE COMPARED TO PLACING A POSTAGE STAMP
ON A FOOTBALL FIELD.
OH, AND THEY SAY THE’RE
CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT ON THE LOCAL WILDLIFE.
HERE IS A PHOTO (Shot during the Summer)
OF THE DEPLETED WILDLIFE,
A SITUATION CREATED BY DRILLING
AROUND PRUDHOE BAY.
DON’T YOU THINK THAT CARIBOU
REALLY HATE THAT DRILLING?
SINCE 1970 THE CENTRAL ARCTIC HERD,
WHICH CALVES IN THE VICINITY OF
PRUDHOE BAY, KUPARUK AND MILNE POINT OIL FIELDS,
HAS INCREASED BY 900%.
HERE’S THE SAME SPOT DURING THE WINTER.
GET A LOOK AT THIS!
THIS ACCESS ROAD CONSTRUCTED FOR DRILLING
OPERATIONS HAS PROVED A REAL
IMPEDIMENT TO WILD LIFE.
AND PIPELINES HAVE PROVED PROBLEMATIC.
THESE BEARS ARE USING IT AS THEIR OWN INTERSTATE
INSTEAD OF WALKING ACROSS PERFECTLY GOOD TUNDRA.
HERE’S A DUMB BEAR WHO HASN’T MET AL GORE.
BUT AT LEAST HE AND HIS FAMILY ARE BETTER OFF
THAN THE LOVABLE, CUDDLY POLAR BEARS
THAT CAN’T STAND WARM WEATHER
AND HUMAN INTRUSION INTO THEIR RANGE.
POOR POLAR BEAR,
COULDN’T FIND AN ICE CAP TO STAND ON,
SO HE SPENDS HIS TIME HANGING OUT WITH THE OIL
DRILLERS. AND FOR SOME REASON,
THE OIL PIPE LINES SEEM TO PROVIDE
A SOURCE OF AMUSEMENT AND PLAY FOR BEARS,
A BEAR DISNEYLAND IN ANWR.
TAKE IT FROM THIS GRIZZLY, APPARENTLY HE
HATES THAT PIPELINE NEAR PRUDHOE BAY.
