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Quote by: US Independent I hate you people. I do not live in Alaska yet I can relate to how they must be feeling. Yes ANWR technically is a national "wildlife" refuge. However anything that happens there affects Alaska and only Alaska. Alaskans want this and the idiots in the East, that have no clue what is going on out there, are saying that Alaskans can't pump oil out of their land.
The land belongs to the people of Alaska it does not belong to the people of the United States. ANWR is in Alaskan territory, this means that anybody in that area follows Alaskan law and is subject to Alaska's government.
The people of the United States have nothing to lose by opening up ANWR. They have everything to gain.
Brien, your argument is, is that the people of the US should decide. Why? Let the people of Alaska decide. It is their land and they should have the right to do whatever they want.
There is no wildlife in the area wanted for drilling. There is grass and migratory caribou and we all know that oil pipelines do not harm caribou. If it did then there would be no spike in the population of caribou throughout the Alaskan region. Caribou are not endangered, the grass that grows there is not endangered, what is the problem?
I think that the Alaskans and Montanans have something in common when it comes to environmentalists in our states. The NPRC here in Montana is ran by people in New York who have no idea what is going on in our state. Yet the NPRC thinks they can tell us what to do with our land and what is good for our economy and what isn't. Alaskans are being told that they can't improve their economy by people who don't have a single clue what is going on in ANWR. It is frustrating and it is wrong.
It is not the federal governments decision to make, it is not the US citizens decision to make, it is not the environmentalists in Florida and New York decision to make, it is the people of Alaska who need to make that decision. They live their they know what the pros and cons are. They know that ANWR doesn't really serve much of a purpose in the first place and they know that they are really getting screwed by the people in Congress. |
This is insane. Does the US Capitol belong to Washington DC? or does it belong to the US Govt? How about if you just wanted to Waltz right on to Offut AFB in NE just because you are a NE resident? You think they would let you? Its NE territory right?
We have already said this time and time again. Guess you have just missed it. It is federal land that falls within the borders of Alaska. Alaskans want it because of the pork within the project. Also because of the annual dividend... I used to live there and Alaskans get a fat ass check each year from oil. I already said this of course, but guess you missed that too.
Also you say you aren't from there, wonder if you have even visited there? No wildlife??? Wonder how you know... There are so many species that I can't even list them all in one post:
http://arctic.fws.gov/wildlife.htm Quote:
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to some of the most diverse and spectacular wildlife in the arctic. The Refuge's rich pageant of wildlife includes 36 fish species, 36 land mammals, nine marine mammals, and more than 160 migratory and resident bird species.
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http://arctic.fws.gov/mammlist.htm - mammal list
http://arctic.fws.gov/birdlist.htm - bird list
http://arctic.fws.gov/fishlist.htm - fish list