Essays Tagged: "ANWR"
Oil drilling in the arctic.
r responsible exploration and development, including Arctic lands. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), is a vast region of land located within the Arctic Circle in the Northeast corner of Alaska. ... Arctic Circle in the Northeast corner of Alaska. It covers 19.8 total acres; eight million acres of ANWR was designated for wilderness, and 1.5 million acres were selected for review by the Department ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences
What is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)?
The Environment or Oil?The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is known as the second largest in the National Wildlife Refuge System. The ANWR covers approxi ... on this as a vital habitat for their survival. Many environmental preservationists believe that the ANWR is one of the nation's last true forms of wilderness remaining, and have even referred to it as ... ational Wildlife Refuge would mean the destruction of one of the last great geographical areas. The ANWR is one of the few remaining areas still untouched by humans in America.The argument over whethe ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
The Growing Question of Oil Exploration in ANWR
of 1980 established the 19 million-acres of what is now called the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) (fig. 3). In this original act, Congress decided to hold off on making a decision on how to ma ... nterior submitted a report to congress on the potential oil and gas deposits that may be located in ANWR. Since then, several oil wells have been drilled and oil fields discovered near ANWR. New geolo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Should We Drill in the Arctic?
ve to contains about a billions of barrels of oil. If the United States are willing to drill in the ANWR, this would lead to trade deficit because foreign policy would change and we can't do anything ... an't do anything about it, just "last year our oil trade deficit was $51 billion" (1). The "area of ANWR can potentially produce 1.5 million barrels of oil per day for at least a quarter of a century, ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Essay on the role of ANWR in the artic
ists, conservationists, and everyday people alike is the debate on whether drilling should occur in ANWR (Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). One of the largest wildlife refuges in Alaska, ANWR ... wildlife refuges in Alaska, ANWR is 19.6 acres and contains large amounts of petroleum. Drilling in ANWR is not a new debate as it has continued for years, but it has been heating up as of late. Peopl ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Oil Drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge
lt of oil extraction in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge are two good reasons for promoting the ANWR project. These are two of the main points that the oil industry, the government, and all others ... e are two of the main points that the oil industry, the government, and all others who push for the ANWR project are using to make it happen. It is also argued that the new technology and new and impr ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Oil Drilling Should Not Be Allowed in the Artic National Wildlife Reserve
n favor of opening the nineteen million acres of the Artic National Wildlife Reserve, also known as ANWR, for oil drilling (Kenworthy & Watson). ANWR is nineteen million acres located in the north ... Alaska. They plan to drill 1.5 million acres of the coastal plains - the heart of the reserve. The ANWR is home to over 36 land mammals, nine marine mammals, 36 fish species, more than 180 migratory ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Benefits of Drilling ANWR.
to drill its sources of oil, specifically the oil buried under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Although it would take approximately 10 years to actually begin flowing oil out from there, o ... , this won't solve all our troubles, but it would be a good start.Conservationists fear drilling in ANWR primarily because it is the calving ground for several thousand caribou. Every year they return ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics
Oil: The Black Gold
thin the United States for oil reserves. One of those areas is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), where there are untapped reserves of oil that would increase the nation's production of oil. ... estroyed. The drilling would create refineries and a number of pipelines that spread throughout the ANWR in addition to housing for workers changing the fairly untouched land into a spider web of oil ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Debate On Alaska Oil
rom oil producing states would support reducing this dependency, many of them oppose looking to the ANWR to solve the problem. Both sides have fired up their political engines as Congressional panels ... the problem. Both sides have fired up their political engines as Congressional panels consider the ANWR oil ban legislation. This legislation, no matter how great the benefits of it may seem, cannot ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Opening ANWR
ng, we would be doing our nation a huge favor. If we opt to begin drilling in the minute portion of ANWR, we would drop our dependency on oil from foreign countries, create thousands of jobs, bring in ... llions of dollars worth of revenue and harvest one of the greatest assets our country has ever seen.ANWR is an enormous area of land that is located in the northernmost western corner of Alaska. Contr ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Drilling For Oil In Alaska
oversial, energy bill, which allows for limited oil drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).1. If approved by the Senate, this will be the first time oil drilling will be conduct ... If approved by the Senate, this will be the first time oil drilling will be conducted in the ANWR, despite the long known existence of oil in this area.2. In 1995 both the House of Repr ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
The Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) vs. Oil
s is because they inhabit a protected area deigned the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.The ANWR is one of the last places on earth where artic and sub artic land remains intact and is kept th ... er of Alaska, and is considered the ?crown jewel? of America?s National Wildlife Refuge System. The ANWR provides quarters for many species of wildlife including 130 types of migratory birds, two type ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
is a safe and necessary act in order to eliminate our dependency on foreign resources?a.Drilling in ANWR is safe for the environment.i.Experience gained at Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk along with rapidly e ... inimize environmental impacts and surface use in future frontier arctic petroleum provinces such as ANWR.ii. Another innovation is in designer wells. These are drilled with a high degree of precision ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences