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To: TimF who wrote (138555)	8/3/2001 6:16:29 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570981

If you are opposing the tax breaks I would probably agree with you (but I would have to look in to the details first), if you are opposing any drilling in the ANWR or any other protected area now or at any time in the future then I have to disagree with you. Tim, both. The tax breaks are a farce...this is not an industry in economic trouble...just the opposite. The argument for drilling in the ANWR to me is specious. The amount and quality of oil to be gained hardly compelling. The article provided by Kelle reiterates many of the issues I have heard raised by sane people: The ANWR is a refuge...that means a sanctuary for animals. There are important reasons why it was made a refuge. Its a breeding ground for several species of animals including mosquitoes. The tech. to be used is new and suspect, and may well result in the leaching of oil into the soil and water. Its a habitat for several species of animals. The habitat is much more fragile in the Arctic region than in the populous areas to the south. Our neighbor and ally, Canada, is opposed to the drilling. *The ANWR's beauty and 'look' is unique. I could go on. Clearly, this country is coming to a crossroads. Its not by chance that there is a growing numbers of people who are opposed to maintaining the old ways of rape [the land], plunder and then conquer. Rape is rape whether its done with white gloves and soft words, or without any pretense of civility at all. In other words the drillers can talk about new tech. and safeguards but the truth is, if sht happens, the ANWR and/or the waters around it will be contaminated. I think the growing outcry is almost genetic or maybe instinctive. I definitely think its not coincidental whether you believe in God, or Darwin, or both. I believe that the growing numbers concerned about the environment is a natural [as in nature] response to what went down before. I know we can not continue to operate in the same fashion, and still remain a viable species. And that means we will have to make some hard choices; choices that can't be put off much longer. ted