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"A
Geopolitical Discussion of Drilling in The Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge"
Daniel Kenny
Undergraduate Student
University of Southern California
ABSTRACT:
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is located in the Northeast
corner of Alaska touching the US-Canadian border. This 19 million acre
refuge is home to the highly controversial Coastal Plain area. While this
area is only 1.5 million acres, it is home to what is thought to be a very
large supply of oil. Supply estimates range from 600 million barrels to
9.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil. The current debate focuses on the
advisability and rational for drilling in this ecosystem. I will explore
each side of this controversy in an attempt to visually show the costs and
benefits of such an action. In this poster I systematically examine the
argument for drilling in the refuge and demonstrate how they fall short of
their projections. Specifically I will show how it will harm the
environment, how it will not resolve our foreign dependency on oil and, in
fact, the beneficiaries of
this action will be a select group foreign and domestic special interests.
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