07 December 2010

ANWR (& Alaska) Under Attack Again

From the Anchorage Daily News:


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The reality is that this uninhabited, frozen marsh & swampland, north of the Arctic Circle, may be declared a national monument - the same tactic that the Federal government has used so often in the recent past to gobble up huge swaths of state-owned land all over the western United States. 

The environmentalists would have you believe that there is a crying need to protect "the wildlife" in that area, and the truth be damned.  But the fact is that ANWR is a region through which caribou herds migrate ... and the drilling which has been proposed for those lands occupy an area -well, let's tell the truth, shall we? (I know that's a foreign concept to the tree-huggers, but let's keep it real. There are few trees in ANWR, anyway. It's almost entirely tundra grasses.)

If ANWR were a basketball court, then the proposed drilling site bears the relative size of a postage stamp on that court. And direct observation, for the record, has shown that the caribou herds which migrate across lands where the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is above ground, have increased in numbers since TAPS was built.

1 comment:

PolyKahr said...

Rev. Paul,

As usual, facts, and the truth do not matter to these people.

Best wishes,
PolyKahr