Drilling for oil in Alaska may affect the wildlife, but it is a good thing to do because our government well make money and get out of depth. Are you tired of paying high gas prices every time you got to fill the tank? Do you know if the U.S would let shell oil company drill for oil in Alaska you could kiss those high gas prices good byes? The resin they say we cannot drill there is because it would affect the wild life. But in my view the wild life that lives there has plenty of land to move to once they started to drill. In this paper I am going to give you many resins of why I think we should drill in Alaska. I am going to tell you the good things it will do for the government and for the U.S people in general. I am also going to tell you why some people say it is a bad idea. I will tell you how it well effects the land and the people and animals that live in the region. At the end of this paper I would like for your thinking on this topic to be more in detail and easier to pick One of the biggest resins I think they should let us drill in Alaska is because of the shortage we have in oil. Do you know we waste trillions of dollars on getting oil from overseas when we could be getting it from our own lands? “If President Clinton wouldn’t have signed the wilderness society demands and vetoed 1995 legislation, we would be producing a million barrels a day from ANWR right now” (Mark, 2012). In fact the Alaska continent already has a pipe line that runs through it, so I think that there shouldn’t be a problem to start using the line again. “TAPS witch was opened in 1977 is over 4’in diameter and stretched 800 miles from Prudhoe bay in the artic to Valdez bay in the gulf of Alaska” (George, 2012). The question bought this pipe is th... ... middle of paper ... ... motioned, lower gas prices, more jobs, and help the economy. These things overcome the bad things that people say are going to happen. You should ask yourself what you would rather have low gas prices “something you are going to use every day, or would you rather keep Alaska like it is something “you are never going to see”. So now that I have told you all of the facts that I have learned this is the time you should really think hard and make your decision to be for or against the plans to drill in a small part of the Alaska Wilderness. I hope this paper help you make your decision on the topic and I also hope that it answered all the questions you had bought the topic, just when you go to make your decision ask your self this question what are we going to need it the future and after you ask your self that question that is when you need to make your decision.
The installation of the Keystone Pipeline began with Phase One, the installation of 2,147 miles of pipeline stretching from Alberta to refineries in Illinois. The installation and administration of Phase One included the conversion of 537 miles of Ca...
Significance: Right now, The United States of America languishes in an economic decline. Jobs are being lost. Drilling in the ANWR will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Also, 80% of Alaska’s state revenues are oil. With the North Slope oil fields in decline, Alaskans could lose jobs. Drilling in the ANWR will create jobs for Alaskans. As Jennie Wodkowski, who has lived in Alaska for 34 years said, “Oil’s important. We don’t have anything else going on here.”
The environment needs protecting because even before the drilling started hunting was rapidly decreasing the amount of animals in the area. So if drilling occured in Alaska the animal count would go down even more. Drilling is gonna need space, and because Alaska is a mountained and woodland area they will have to make space by destroying trees etc. Destroying trees means destroying animals’ homes. According to document E ‘just look 60 miles west to Prudhoe bay- an oil complex that has turned 1,000 square miles of fragile tundra into a sprawling industrial zone containing, 1,500 miles of roads and pipes’. Also the document states that the would be
With our understanding that the pipeline is safe, and there are safety precautions in place if anything ever did happen. That it is the best economical way to transport this oil. And finally our need for this oil s huge and it will be huge for a long time unless we start the process of building nuclear power right now; even in that case we still have about 15 years before that is ready to take the work load of British Columbia. Even when we have a different sustained energy we will still have the need for oil due to the fact that’s cars are the main moat of transportation in the lower main land. That means we are far away from a province let alone a country that can run without the use of oil. And seeing how to transport it via pipe line is the safest spill wise and most economically friendly it seems to be the better choice.
...Alberta tar sands oil extraction project should be ended immediately. It should be stopped until the government has a better understanding of the effects that it has on the surrounding areas, including the wildlife and humans. The extraction of oil is being pushed because of the large possibility of capital being gained from the project by the government, which has lead to negligence by the government of the impacts. When people, animals, and plants are dying at such a high rate, the Canadian government shouldn’t be watching, they should be acting before the tar sands oil extraction project become too big to stop. This project has allowed me to answer the questions I had when I started the paper and allowed me to formulate my own opinions about the topic. Hopefully, it interested the audience enough that they will research the topic more and make up their own mind.
The oil companies, the customers, and the average employee will not benefit from the construction of this pipeline. If the pipeline does its job, it will take the whole load of oil from Canada to the United States. The other companies which are already responsible for transporting oil will not be required to do their jobs, as it is being done for them. All of these companies will go out of business. With three more pipeline plans in place for Canada, people are wondering whether they will ever need to build a new one again.
This paper will discuss the effects of Keystone XL Pipeline project and how the findings of the research might be beneficial to the United States. The first point of argument will be the negative impact of the Keystone Pipeline to America’s economy and the environment. The second point of view will be the positive impact of Keystone Pipeline to America’s economy. Keystone XL Pipeline is TransCanada’s tar-sand transportation project. The pipeline is supposed to cut across America to be linked with Canada’s tar-sand mines. It is aimed at increasing energy security in America. However, the project has received a lot of criticism from both the citizens and environmentalists for climate reasons (Mendelsohn and Dinar 154). To understand the implications of Keystone XL Pipeline, it is important to look at its environmental and economic impacts to the United States.
Recently, TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline has become a hot debate topic. Those who oppose the Western United States oil pipeline are misled and uniformed. The US Government should authorize the Keystone XL Pipeline that would import tar sand oil from Canada. The pipeline would generate jobs and help to remove foreign oil dependency, is the safest transportation option being considered and finally will not harm or affect the environment as opponents claim.
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The Debate Over the Idea of Drilling for Oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Based on two stories which we learnt these days: “Harrison Bergeron” and “There will come soft rains”, we can see that in the future, technology affects us a lot. Our life will mainly depend on technology, let us see how this changed us from the stories.
The United States relies on imports for about forty percent of its crude oil, which is the lowest rate of dependency since 1991 according to the U.S Energy Information Administration. Today our country is trying to keep on track in becoming less and less dependent. When it comes to the topic of the future ways the United States will get its fuel, most of us readily agree that the United States should become more independent by using natural gas that is already here on our land. Where this argument usually ends, however, is on the question of the consequences drilling for natural gas brings. Whereas some are convinced drilling is safe, others maintain that it is actually in fact dangerous. Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking", the terms for drilling for natural gas, is dangerous to our public health and to the environment because of the water contamination it causes. Therefore, it is not something that should become a project for alternative fuel used by the United States.
...s many untapped resources that the government has kept businesses from taking advantage of. I believe a reduction in restrictions could lead to economic growth as seen in other states that have used fracking to bring in large amounts of growth.
In 1968, Americans were continuing to migrate to the west coast and the pipeline industry followed. The increase of import refineries on the Gulf Coast also led to the construction of pipelines that would stretch across the eastern seaboard. 1968 also saw the discovery of large quantities of oil in Alaska. In response, a massive pipeline system was constructed in the span of seven years to transport oil to the contiguous United States.
The influence of the electronic devices, multimedia and computers are the things that dealt with our daily life. Especially the internet that is now giving more importance to each and every one, by giving the newest outstanding media that surely will give the outmost future ahead of us. (Temmel)