Oil and Wildlife Do Not Mix

Opening ANWR to oil and gas drilling will irreparably damage the fragile tundra and its wildlife

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Hey Dan,

How much did your non profit raise in donations in 2010 and what is your 10 month total for 2011? Isn't your Sierra group the one that ran pictures of the Brooks Range of mountains with script saying oil companies wanted to drill in this pristine and beautiful Alpine area? What was it Dan? Beautiful mountaion slopes, calm and blue lakes? Yeah I think so. It is called deliberate deception - oh come on Dan - let's just call it what it is - bald face lying. And you took people's donation to put those false ads in full page NY Times, LA Times and who knows how many other papers. Why couldn't you show the REAL pictures of where drilling would take place - a very small portion of the coastal plane swarmed by mosquitos in summer and frozen and vacant in the winter.

I see you make no comment about the wildlfe populations on the North Slope since we began pumping oil to America down the Trans Alaska Pipeline in 1978. I wouldn't either if I was trying to pump everybody's bilge. Fact is the porcupine caribou herd is more than twice as large as it was pre-pipeline, and despite what the press may selectively decide to tell America - polar bear populations are also at record highs.

The worst thing that can happen for Lower 48 state fellow Americans is to believe everything you read in the mainstream press and media. The majority of these environmentalist group opinions posted here are interested most in taking money from deliberately disinformed folks - like you maybe to grow their salaries and organizations. Their socalled causes, in this case - stopping us from bringing home oil from the coastal plane, doesn't pass the common sense test.

I don't respect organizations like Dan's. I can respect individual members, but these groups seem to have alterior motives when they are exposed against facts. They are all about subtrafuge. Snake oil comes to mind.

Jay Page of AK 1:33AM November 04, 2011

I vote instead we take the entire state of California and turn it back into a wilderness area. Make those people clean up the ecological disaster they have created. Get rid of all the pavement, all the houses, all cars. Let people live in shelters made of handwoven leaves, eat their organically grown naturally watered/fertilized food raw, forgo heat, cooling, and electricity. Let's make California one big park.

And let's throw in a most of the Eastern Seaboard as well, just for giggles. And Colorado.

Lisa Walker of AK 1:10AM November 04, 2011

We need to be protecting fragile environments, not sacrificing them for America's greed....we need to explore alternative forms of energy!!!

Sindy of CO 7:29PM November 03, 2011

The Arctic may be the last place on earth that is truly remote, truly "wild." It is a biological, ecological laboratory that people 1000 years from now would no doubt appreciate the opportunity to study, and people right now should be inspired to have on their planet.

Visit if you can; take solace in its existence if you can't, and protect this unique place under any circumstances.

Bob of CA 7:12PM November 03, 2011