First… do you know what ANWR is?  ANWR = arctic national wildlife refuge.  We recieved this email, did a little research and decided to post it.  We put it on Just Stupid because we want to get people’s attention that not becoming independent of Middle East oil IS just stupid!  You can download this presentation as a PDF here.

And some perspective…

Note where the proposed development area is…

(It’s in the "ANWR coastal plain")

This is what the objectors show you when they talk about ANWR

…And they are right… these are photographs of ANWR

  

Isn’t ANWR beautiful?  Why should we drill here (and destroy) this beautiful place?

Well… that’s not exactly the truth. Do you remember the map? The map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR coastal plain.

Do those photographs look like a coastal plain to you? What’s going on here? The answer is simple…

That is not where they are wanting to drill! This is what the proposed exploration area actually looks like in the winter.

And this is what it actually looks like in the summer

  

Here are a couple screen shots from Google earth.

As you can see, the area where they are talking about drilling is a barren wasteland.

Oh… and they say that they are concerned about the effect on the local wildlife…

Here is a photo (shot during the summer) of the "depleted wildlife" situation created by drilling around Prudhoe Bay*… don’t you think that the caribou really hate that drilling?

Here’s that same spot during the winter.

Hey, this bear seems to really hate the pipeline near Prudhoe Bay*…

*The Prudhoe Bay area accounts for 17% of U.S. domestic oil production

Now that you know the truth, what are you going to do about it?

 

You can start by forwarding this to everyone you know… so that they will know the truth.  And consider supporting ANWR.ORG.

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