How would you like to see the most beautiful place in America destroyed just for a bit of oil? Last summer, I went to the most spectacular place and came to care deeply about its wildlife. I would hate for that place to be destroyed. I saw bears, moose, salmon, elk, humpback whales, otters and much more in Alaska. I also encountered a hideous, metal snake called the Alaskan Pipeline built in the 1980s to transport oil.
Reducing ground water levels will have consequences on the wider ecosystem and it will affect wetlands. Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could damage the sea bed and even destroy ecosystems not even discovered yet. Also conflict over who will get the oil in the Arctic will be in dispute and will most likely be economically costly and large social conflicts with tribesmen there and
Week 6 Course Project Legal Issues in Hydraulic Fracturing Hydraulic fracturing is a controversial drilling process that uses highly pressurized water, sand and chemicals to extract natural gas and oil deeply buried in the earth. Hydraulic fracturing takes place throughout the United States and Canada. While differences exist among drilling locations, investor concerns are the same: Hydraulic fracturing fluids are known to include toxic and carcinogenic chemicals. There are numerous documented cases of environmental and public health impacts as a result of fracturing. Companies involved in this process do not disclose the chemical constituents of their fracturing fluids.
4) Fools Gold: Expeditions to map and discover lucrative sea routes such as the North –West passage, laying claim to the Arctic in the name of Queen Elizabeth I and the hope of finding gold to pay for such ventures, only succeeded in unearthing worthless black rock which built a nice wall. 5) Another Planet : Visualising an almost ‘alien’ style landscape from an early nineteenth century imagination, from stories and legends of the horrific failures of man to explore such inhospitable regions, can only enhance the view that perhaps nature will
“Teams of scientists who are adept on researching animal habitat have been dispatch to come to Alaska to study about their habitat, and how the TAP would disturb animal habitat by doing some intimation of the oil compressor when transporting the oil through the pipe line” (Jakimchuk) fact from disturbance studies of caribou and other mammals in the Yukon and Alaska, 1972 /K. H. McCourt, Alaskan Arctic Gas Study Company. The greatest population of animal in Alaska near the pipeline was the caribou. The TAP did some minor effect on the caribou path. The path of the caribou is little slightly off its original course but that didn’t really harm them, in addition to that, the effect only applies to two of the twelve populate caribou pack.
What questions did you have about the subject? One question I have a bout the subject is; why is the war still going on and people know the truth behind it and are against it? Step 4 Summarize the documentary 7. Who / What is the subject of the documentary? The subject of the documentary is the war in oil rich regions, and the people involved in and effected by the war. 8.
The Last Great Wilderness Located in the far northeast corner of Alaska is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). This area consists of over 19 million acres of protected land and is home to a harsh climate and pure wildlife. The refuge is more diverse than any other plot of National land and is considered by many to be the last great wilderness. This area has been largely untouched by oil companies but over the past thirty years, there has been a growing debate of whether or not to drill for oil inside of the refuge. Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil drilling would diminish the landscape and destroy the wildlife.
The arctic regions of North America depend on isolated overland routes, summertime ship routes, and air transportation in order to maintain a civil and industrialized society such as in Iqaluit, Pond Inlet, Cape Dorset, and Gris Fiord and other remote communities. An example of Northern Resources already accessed was in the State of Alaska where the transportation of oil by pipeline from arctic Alaska was highly controversial in the early 1970s. The main opposition was from environmentalists because of the extreme/unique conditions of the Arctic, the slowness of natural repairs. The protection and preservation of the Arctic have been major goals of conservationists, who fear the damage done to the natural environment from local temperature increases, the widespread use of machinery, the interference with wildlife migration, and oil spills will affect all regions of the world due to the increase of the sea level. This is why it is such a delicate issue when working within the Canadian Arctic; the “Nunavut Land Claims Agreement” prevents anyone not of Inuit descent to go forth with any industrialization without the approval of the Territorial government and even then it can still be turned down by a community of Inuit
While determining what the outcome of our environment is going to be, we need to examine the history, where we are now, and where these solutions in the environment will take us. Our children lives are at stack. History The environmental issue is a very old issue that has been a problem for many years now. To be honest things can become a bit overwhelming for some to understand when we try to explain the effects human beings have on the environment. Santos explains that the environmental issues “date back to the nineteenth century, when trappers, fishermen, and naturalists campaigned against the unrestrained exploitation of American’s pristine environmentals,” (Santos, 1999).
c) Examples of these environmental events are oil spills and highly publicized threats of extinction of many species. d) Environment became a popular issue. 3) Early days of modern environmentalism a) Environmentalism was dominated by confrontations between those labeled environmentalist and those labeled anti-environmentalists. b) Environmentalists believed that the world was in peril. c) The antienvironmentalists believed that social and economic heath and progress were necessary.