2/28/2005
Elephant #1: Just 10% for Drilling
In discussions about drilling in ANWR I often hear it said that just 10% would be set aside for drilling. This is our first elephant.
Neil Boortz, whose authority and understanding of the issues can only be compared to a cranial cavity filled with pureed excrement, puts it like this:
By the way ... do you know just how much of ANWR would be affected by the drilling? Here's an illustration. Take a look at a chair sitting on a nine foot by twelve foot rug. The rug represents the total size of ANWR. Now, look at the space on that rug occupied by just one leg of that chair. Just one leg. That's the representative area of ANWR that would be disturbed by the drilling. Didn't know that, did you?I hope Mr. Boortz publishes this in the Journal of Irreproducible Physics. Folks would like to know that Republican Talking Points are causing a dramatic contraction in the space-time continuum.
Here's the 10% (i.e., chair leg) we're talking about. In case you're wondering if I took this from a biased source, I kind of did. It's from the pinko anarchists at the US Geological Survey:
One of the first things you'll notice is that "chair leg", also known as area 1002, takes up almost the entire coast of ANWR. That way we can fuck up both the ecology of the coastal plain region and the Arctic Ocean at the same time.
What you can't tell from this map is that the coastal areas are inhabited by the Gwich’in Indians. They live off of the caribou who also live there. And in case this point got lost earlier, despite what Gale Norton says, this is precisely where the caribou are concentrated.
This we'll discuss soon.
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