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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (172031)	8/16/2001 4:45:36 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

When tundra thaws it is lichens, wild-flowers etc and very fragile eco-system. Has been undisturbed for millennae but Bush wants to send the bulldozers in and has totally exaggerated the amount of oil reserves beneath this area. They will say or do whatever it takes to get the right to go in their and plunder. In the long run it won't help us at all and will befoul one of God's greatest creations. Not even an African country would allow this sort of thing but Bush-Cheney only care about making their oil companies cronies fat. They will even have us pay for the "exploration" by granting Big Oil 33 billion in tax breaks. Thievery pure and simple.

To: Srexley who wrote (172031)	8/16/2001 5:01:41 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

anwr.org All fabrications of environmental damage are from the minds of the technology retarded. This land is really the land of the Indians who live there and they want the area opened by a vote or 75%. The US claim to this land over native Indians is morally very weak. tom watson tosiwmee

To: Srexley who wrote (172031)	8/16/2001 5:43:47 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<If I am not mistaken, I think tundra means frozen earth. It is a treeless terrain in arctic and sub-arctic regions according to Webster's. Why do you feel it is so "fragile"?>> In a way it is. Only the top few inches thaw and under that is permafrost. If the lichens on the top are destroyed erosion occurs. This was a concern on the first pipeline. I sold a suit to a U of Illinois Ag prof who worked on the problem. He told me that they lay a layer of pea gravel for a road. The pea gravel won't sink into the permafrost and stops erosion. On the ANWR I'd bet they don't make all that many roads. Most equipment will be shipped in or brought in over ice roads in the winter. There are towns in the area and they get supplies.