ANWR is now officially screwed...

[Odin]

Originally posted by Dis


I support drilling in the anwr with heavy restrictions. The bad thing is this damn republican administration will not make these oil companies accountable to clean up after themselves and make provisions for the wildlife.

Whats next? the Repukes allowing logging in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area? This is a god-awful precident.

[Arrian]

This is why we should just drill Gabrielle Anwar and be done with it...

-Arrian

[JohnT]

Well, it's about time!

[Flubber]

ON drilling there I have mixed feelings-- I know that exploration drilling can have a minimal footprint when done in the winter with proper conservation methods. The problem is if you actually find something . . . Then we are talking pipelines, roads, many many trucks etc etc.

One of the larger relatively unspoiled places on earth will be despoiled .

The reality may be that there is a lot more or less oil than is projected so I guess only time will tell

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Odin
Whats next? the Repukes allowing logging in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area? This is a god-awful precident.

As is your spelling.

[asleepathewheel]

drill that mofo and get it over with.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
drill that mofo and get it over with.

There's no getting it over with quickly-- It will take years and years of drilling to determine what if anything is up there and this can only come about after some modern seismic is performed.

I believe lake bottom dynamiting is currently the preferred method

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Odin


Whats next? the Repukes allowing logging in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area? This is a god-awful precident.

that should reduce the risk of a catastrophic bwca forest fire-storm and provide some nice lumber to boot.

[DinoDoc]

I'm confused. Has the Alaska Pipeline led to somesort of massive enviromental devestation I'm unaware of?

[Odin]

Originally posted by Geronimo


that should reduce the risk of a catastrophic bwca forest fire-storm and provide some nice lumber to boot.

But it will decrease Duluth's health rating and per/turn gold income.

[DRoseDARs]

Not even going to bother with your assinine over-simplification, DD.

[DinoDoc]

I'm just curious where ZOMFG THINK OF THE CARIBOU comes from when we have examples of oil projects that don't seem to have destroyed the Alaskan wilderness. The pipeline analogy was just a convenient example. I could just as easily asked about projects in Alberta.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Dis


I support drilling in the anwr with heavy restrictions. The bad thing is this damn republican administration will not make these oil companies accountable to clean up after themselves and make provisions for the wildlife.

How about PREVENTING the mess in the first place?

[Odin]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
I'm just curious where ZOMFG THINK OF THE CARIBOU comes from when we have examples of oil projects that don't seem to have destroyed the Alaskan wilderness. The pipeline analogy was just a convenient example. I could just as easily asked about projects in Alberta.

ANWR is an very important birthing area for the caribou, that's why it is more important than other areas. Caribou tend to stay away from oil instalations, so puting them in ANWAR will mess up the caribou population.

[Dis]

Originally posted by MrFun




How about PREVENTING the mess in the first place?

like it or not, the world runs on oil.