This is about the ANWR debate. It reveals some key points. One, drilling would take about 2k acres out of millions. Two, the people of Alaska want it. Three, caribou herds actual increased by large amounts after the drilling on the North Slope, and four, the beautiful pictures you see of ANWR are nothing like the area they want to drill in, which is a flat, icy wasteland.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
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2 Comments:
Hate to snow on your parade, but the two thousand acre number is based on the footprint of the rigs themselves and nothing else. Not roads, outbuildings, pipelines, parking lots, housing, runways...
And they will be spread out and connected by all that stuff. Pety much like saying you car is only taking up one square foot of pavement based on the tires touching the ground...
You realize that 2000 acres is over three square miles? There are NO oil rigs that big. In fact there are no man made object even close to that big that I know of. You can easily put a few rigs, buildings, parking lots, etc., on 3 square miles.
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