Essays Tagged: "arctic national wildlife"
The Arctic National Wildlife Reserve
It seems completely insane for the United States to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would be a contradictio ... d save more than one million barrels of oil per day - roughly five times the amount of oil that the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve is likely to produce. (Palmer 21)The tragedy of 9/11 has only given ... t all of which are "terrorist" nations.If the Bush Administration succeeds and begins to dig up the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, it would be an illogical act with no other purpose except to make ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Oil drilling in the arctic.
eater access is provided to government lands for responsible exploration and development, including Arctic lands. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), is a vast region of land located within the Ar ... environment. Therefore, The United States should drill for oil in the ANWR. First, Drilling in the Arctic would decrease the United States' dependence on foreign oil. Many people, by virtually blame ...
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 Refug ... of employment opportunities. Oil companies want to take over a one hundred and ten mile area of The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastline so that they can drill for oil. They are hoping that the ... Middle East for oil. The U.S. needs a large supply of oil to keep going, and all of the oil in the Arctic will take at least ten years preparation time before it will be ready for market. With all of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Should We Drill in the Arctic?
Should the United States drill for oil in the Arctic? As most people should have known, the oil and the gas prices had rise since the attacked of ... or oil had been much simpler for the people and much more efficient in terms of oil collecting. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an enormous piece of land located in the Northeast of Alaska, is be ... t disagree with it. If an opinion poll were taken, more people would prefer drilling for oil in the arctic than disallowing it, even for those that are under 18, because it would give a rise in econom ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Essay on the role of ANWR in the artic
ionists, 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 is 19.6 acres ... e area would benecessary to extract the oil.When Congress in 1980 more than doubled the size of the Arctic Wildlife Range they created a 19 million-acre refuge -- an area the size of the state of Sout ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Pearl Harbour and George Bush
Still Drilling for Oil Support45% Oppose Drilling in Alaska RefugePresident Bush's plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling seems to be loosing ground. Public support ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Oil Politics vs. Nature.
Introduction.The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1960 and was further expanded in 1980. The Arctic ... s. Its preservation ensures the lives of these animals, and the betterment of their population. The Arctic Refuge lies north of the Arctic Circle, and is an intact continuum of six different ecologica ... x different ecological zones covering some 200 miles from north to south. It has been said that the Arctic Refuge is the greatest outstanding reminder that saving and conserving nature is a great Amer ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Benefits of Drilling ANWR.
e our dependence on foreign oil and the cost that we pay for it, the simplest being to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.Recently, tensions have been high between the US and the o ... US can begin its independence is 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 be ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics
ANWR
What would America gain by allowing heavy industry into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? Very little. Oil found in the refuge would not be enough to end Ame ... more oil will not solve America's energy needs. These are the reasons to opose oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.Oil from the refuge would hardly make a dent in our dependence on fo ... epresents, less than a year's U.S. supply. It is also estimated that it would take 10 years for any Arctic Refuge oil to reach the market. Even when production peaks in 2027, the refuge would produce ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Arctic Oil Drilling
and the United States Congress has questioned if they should drill into the Area 1002 sector of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. If Congress decides to drill into this controversial area, much of ... and foremost, the six ecosystems present in this refuge make it the most diverse in the circumpolar arctic. If the United States Congress allows oil drilling in the refuge, many of these ecosystems wi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Debate On Alaska Oil
Is Artic Plunder Armed Robbery? The new Republican majority has brought the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's (ARWR) oil exploration ban to center stage. Alaska's all Republica ... illion, and financing and reserves would add another $1 billion plus, according to Forrest Hoglund, Arctic?s chairman (Oil & Gas Journal, 2000, p.21).? The initial costs themselves is motivation e ... magazine writer, T.H. Watkins (1996,58), along with many other environmentalists trying to save the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR), claim that the environmental price for using the land in qu ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Opening ANWR
re still environmental issues concerning this topic, there are multiple benefits to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By choosing to open the refuge to oil drilling, we would be doing o ... conservative and resourceful ways to extract the petroleum from the ground. After visiting Alaska's Arctic Slope, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said, "The oil industry has learned how to drill with ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
I. Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a safe and necessary act in order to eliminate our dependency on ... roduction techniques will further minimize environmental impacts and surface use in future frontier arctic petroleum provinces such as ANWR.ii. Another innovation is in designer wells. These are drill ... t of tundra surface.ii.Oil and gas development and wildlife are successfully coexisting in Alaska's arctic. For example, the Central Arctic Caribou Herd (CACH) which migrates through Prudhoe Bay has g ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences
Artic
�PAGE � �PAGE �9� The Potential of The Potential of the ArcticPatrisha FarlowSCI207Jake GrandyJuly 26, 2010The Potential of the ArcticThe Arctic National Wi ... nsider the benefits and affects that looking for oil and other resources will have on, not only the Arctic, but on the country as a whole.Along the northeast coast of Alaska lies the Arctic National W ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Case-In-Point - Energy Summary
CI362 - Environmental EthicsFacilitator: Steven GoldsmithAugust 23, 2010Energy SummaryChapter 11THE ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGEThe Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the largest entity in the Nati ... uge System. The Refuge is America's finest example of an intact, naturally functioning community of arctic/subarctic ecosystems. The Arctic Refuge is the only area on Alaska's North Slope where petrol ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management