Those opposed to drilling oil say that many of these animals will greatly be disturbed. Many people believe that if oil drilling was to start in the ANWR all of the region would become interrupted. But that is really not the case. Sure some wildlife will be somewhat disturbed but just a very little bit.
And furthermore, if a large amount of oil is discovered which is most likely, less than 2, acres of the over 1. That averages out to less than half of one percent of ANWR that would be affected by the production of oil.
Top Ten reasons So the amount of land that will actually be affected by oil production is just a pinpoint in comparison to ANWR. The answer is that only a very small fraction of ANWR will be touched. In accordance to the affect being very minimal, drilling oil in ANWR will create many new jobs.
Domestic production benefits the United States economy when new construction, service, manufacturing and engineering jobs are created The ANWR. With unemployment rates being very high recently it is important that new jobs be found.
Not all of these jobs will only be in Alaska or the west side, but many more throughout the whole country. While the jobs being created are an important factor, the support from the citizens of Alaska is tremendous. Many of the people who are opposed to the idea of drilling oil live in urban settings and drive fuel efficient cars.
They usually don't know much about what they are talking about. But those who live in Alaska have a firsthand experience with the land and the wildlife of the refuge. If anybody, they know the most. With great support from the local people, the oil drilled has many other uses besides automobiles and transportation.
Trump's Interior Department sold the leases in January over the objections of environmentalists and indigenous groups. The Alaskan state government had pressed for the sale for decades, hoping that opening the enormous refuge would help revive its declining oil industry. In , Congress passed a law requiring two lease sales in the area within seven years. The program is the subject of lawsuits by green and native groups that allege the Trump administration violated federal law by performing a faulty environmental analysis that failed to adequately consider its impact on wildlife and native people.
Leases were issued for nine tracts covering , acres. Subscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox. This is good policy for a lot of reasons, but the least obvious is that it will help the environment. If the accident had occurred on land or in shallow seas, the spill could have been contained in three days instead of three months.
For more than 40 years, the U. This overregulation has been neither prudent nor partisan. President George H. Bush, a former oilman, enacted a separate and redundant moratorium in ; Bill Clinton extended it in And approval rates for drilling permits on federal lands plummeted during the Obama administration. Geological Survey. The actual number is likely greater. Drilling in the ANWR poses less risk to the environment than fracking. It would also be cheaper. But fracking is no walk in the park.
A fracked well consumes an average of 4.
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