The 2000 Acre Scam

Alaska allows oil companies to purchase oil leases in the state, and to downplay any environmental impact, the oil companies claim that they would restrict their drilling and exploration to 2000 acres. Not quite true, says the opposition factions. Oil deposits are in small pockets spread out over a large area of the coastal plain. In order to explore and mine these pockets, the oil companies would drill 100 acres here and a couple hundred acres somewhere else, adding up to the given 2000acres. But they would have to build miles and miles of roads and pipelines to connect each section, covering up a large section of wildlife habitat. A serious risk to the migrating animals would impact the entire Alaska eco-system. Maybe we should leave Alaska wild and get our fuel somewhere else.

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