RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: The Threat of Oil Drilling

Steve Brenneis responds to Behethland B. Clark:

I didn't take the CSM article as offered gospel. I just figured you were offering it as evidence. The USGS article confirms the figures I had read previously. As you can see from all the sources, ANWR is by no means a lightweight resource.

By the way, one thing that hasn't been mentioned in all this debate is the fact that the drilling will take place in a tiny corridor of the reserve. The reserve itself is over 19 million acres. The area set aside for drilling comprises 1.5 million acres, but the recently passed bill limits the actual area for drilling to 2000 acres, a tiny fraction of the total area of the reserve. Granted, the bill plays some fishy games with how that area is calculated, but even at the worst, the drilling area is nearly inconsequential with regard to the total area of the reserve.