To Drill Or Not To Drill
Ernie Munoz
January 20, 2006
Research Paper
To Drill, or Not to Drill
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, also known as ANWR, is a nineteen million acre refuge that lies in the northeast corner of Alaska. If ANWR was a state, it would be larger then ten other states including: Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, and West Virginia. The Coastal Plain area, comprising 1.5 million acres on the northern edge of ANWR, is bordered on the north by the Beaufort Sea, on the east by the U.S. Canadian border, and on the west by the Canning River. As we know it, congress is again considering whether to permit drilling for oil and gas in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ANWR has a lot of barrels of oil down there. In a U.S. geological survey, that was published this year, it estimates that ANWR has a Ninety-five percent chance of holding 3 million barrels of economically recoverable oil at......
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