See the Alaska Wildlife Refuge Targeted fr Drilling by Tax Plan

This article by National Geographic tackles the possible conflict the new tax bill will have on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  ANWR resides on Alaska's North Slope and is home to over 200 species.  The area thrives with life with refugee species as well as migration species, and if the new tax bill is passed, drilling companies will be able to use the area for collecting oil they believe to be located underneath the region.  Drillers say that the process would be careful and effective, but there are places all over the world that are still suffering form the aftermath of oil spills that occurred years ago.  Contaminating the water or surrounding areas would destroy the habitats for various animals and essentially undo all the work ANWR's creators have done to make a suitable and habitable place for Arctic species.

 https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/anwr-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-drilling-gop-tax-plan-spd/


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  1. Mrs. JohnsonDecember 6, 2017 at 8:08 AM

    Watching the Senator from Alaska on CSPAN she kept stressing how "tiny" the section that will allow the drilling really is. When a spill happens do you think the size of the drilling area will matter to the species of life that happens to live there?

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  2. AnonymousDecember 6, 2017 at 1:58 PM

    Even if an oil spill wouldn't occur since they need to be careful the drilling will still be a big change on the animals who live there and will cause distress on the wildlife that are already having challenges of surviving.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 14, 2017 at 6:37 PM

    This, among other things, is not the only thing wrong with this new tax reform. As if drilling for oil wasn't bad enough for the environment, now oil drillers want to put innocent animals at risk? There is a much better solution to this problem, and I think it lies among cutting back on America's oil supply for one.

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