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Oil Drilling in Alaska
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... should permit the companies British Petroleum, Exxon Mobile, Chevron, and Phillips Petroleum to drill for oil in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). ... Personally I am against the drilling. ...
-It holds over 16 billion barrels of oil underneath its surface. ... The government’s case is that they want to drill in the ANWR because they want to reduce our dependency on oil coming in from the Middle East. They believe that the political instability there may eventually cause disruptions to the supplies coming to the west; they also believe that the oil can be extracted without ecological damage. ...
-The amount of oil
-The fact is that even when we do start pumping the oil, it won’t even get to us for ten years. ... This is not oil to justify risking the refuge. ... These things would save us more oil, than drilling in Alaska would ever supply.
-Ecological Damage
-Next thing to talk about is this idea that the oil companies won’t damage the environment in anyway. ... We believe this because these four companies alone are responsible for over 150 oil spills in the last 10 years. ... The Exxon Valdez spill which dumped over 11 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound near Alaska, the Phillips Petroleum disaster which leaked 92,400 gallons of oil on the Kuparuk oil field on the Northern Slope right next to ANWR, and the British Petroleum spilling over 9,700 gallons of oil into Prudhoe Bay also on the Northern Plain.
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Title: Oil Drilling in Alaska
Words: 969
Rating: None
Pages: 3.9
submitted by: jorginfleck
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