America Is Not Prepared to Safely Drill in ANWR

The Alaskan refuge belongs to the American people, not the oil industry

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Successful drilling would in the ANWR would help help many in America to break their addiction to the idea of that the technical works of humankind are inherently evil. This neo-Luddite idea has a simplistic appeal but it is a kind of virus that weaken and kills any nation where it is allowed to become established. It condemns the future generations to lives of ignorance, poverty and squalor.

Warwick 6:55PM December 10, 2011

Off shore drilling and looking for oil. Lets let Cuba do it, after all job for the people -----why the Government will do. Colleges Shut them down, we have no jobs for then to do upon graduation. Then the Government game New Zealand money to look for off shore Oil. Guess they need jobs more than us. O we could give more money to favorite O Bama Solar Panel companies to never pay back

John E Powell of OR 4:50PM November 10, 2011

its not oil and gas companys job to search for alternatives, that should be left up to private investors and not subsidized by taxpayer money, if a new source of energy is promising it will recieve investment from private sources, only ideas that have no way of working need public financing.

john of MA 9:37AM November 08, 2011

A fact that is being left out of this argument against drilling in ANWR is that the accident in the Gulf of Mexico would not have been so difficult to remedy is that if the environmentalists had NOT demanded that drilling be as deep as it was in the Gulf's accident, it would have been more easily accessible. It amazes me that restrictions are put on off shore drilling and then when those restrictions are the REASON for the difficulty, they scream bloody murder. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. This circular reasoning MUST GO.

Anita of MN 9:18AM November 06, 2011

There is no lack of oil in the world and won't be for thousands of years. If the Artic looses a few hundred acres of several million, then it seems a reasonable venture. After all people have rights too, not just critters and trees. Tell govt to stop telling me what mpg car to drive. If I want to drive a gas hog or an efficient model why can't I. Whatever happend to freedom and the freemarket?LEt gas go up and give people the right to buy what they want not force them to do what "You Enviro's" want. There is a word for that.....communism

Delaney Faircloth of SC 3:48PM November 04, 2011

Who are these stupid people they don't understand common sence the area that they want to drill in is about the size of four-FOUR football feilds get that FOUR football fieldsnot like the golf were they have thousands of square miles of water

Don of WA 3:32PM November 04, 2011

The closest Coast Guard Base? Is the NRDC really so ignorant?

ANWR is just East of the Prudhoe Bay and associated oil fields and Milepost 0 of the Trans Alaska Pipeline or TAPS. The Producers and Alyeska have established the world's best land and marine oil spill response organization. They operate under the State of Alaska's statutory regime which is the most strict and sweeping in the world.

The spill prevention and response requirements for any exploration and development in ANWR would be dictated by the same laws that have produced the present North Slope organization. A similar structure would be required and we would see the cleanest oil fields in the world in the Refuge.

Michael of AK 12:24PM November 04, 2011

yes, ANWAR drilling site is on land...whats the CG got to do with it?

Wes of HI 12:07PM November 04, 2011

Are you people serious? Let's see, the environmentalist movement pushes drilling off-shore to an area where the Ocean floor is miles below the surface making it much more dangerous, it leads to a spill which is perfect for your argument, yet retarded. You seemingly have no problem with Cuba drilling in the Gulf, or Brazil drilling...only the US. If it's really about the Environment shouldn't you at a minimum have a consistent position?

With the new drilling technology available we aren't even talking about drilling offshore in ANWR, the animal populations have risen dramatically since the "Evil" pipeline has been in service and there is no reason to believe based on recent history that a spill is likely, unless the Enviro moment pushes drilling offshore. You people keep saying it will take 10 years to bring oil to market and have been saying that for at least the past 2 decades...if I'm not mistaken there have been significant advances in drilling technologies and the real time estimate is more like 3-5 years.

Obama waving his magic wand and raising CAFE standards is a joke...I know to you Barry is the second coming, but there is absolutely no way to get the mileage to 54.5 MPG without us all driving "Smartcars", or cars made so light that traffic fatalities will skyrocket, but then maybe I can hook a wagon to the back for the rest of the family.

Perhaps you folks should put your education to good use and stop being professional obstructionist "working" for non-profits. Just look what you have done to the forests in this country by not allowing anyone to clean up the dead underbrush, which leads to insect infestation and catastrophic wild fires....get a clue because people like you always tend to outsmart yourself by half...

Dennis V of NY 9:39AM November 04, 2011

We need to drill and it will not take 10 years to get it to market. According to Exxon it would only take them three months and they would have that oil on the market.

Wayne Corey of TX 7:47AM November 04, 2011

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