Victim of oil exploration?
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Over 7 years ago, Dreamland host
Jim
Marrs said, "It's all about oil." Now a major UK newspaper
reports that the US has blocked the release of a major
assessment of oil and gas activity in the Arctic that may be
contributing to the extinction of an
endangered species.
In the January 22 edition of the Independent, Daniel Howden
writes that the US is preparing to "sell off exploration licenses
[to drill for oil in} the frozen Chukchi Sea off Alaska, one of
the last intact habitats of the polar bear."
According to Howden, the assessment that was blocked by
the US was supposed to "give policy makers a clear set of
recommendations on how to extract safely what are thought
to be up to one quarter of the world's energy reserves."
Maybe this was done because there is NO WAY to extract
this oil without endangering the polar bears? Howden writes
that "the sale to oil and gas companies has been rushed
through before Congress can complete efforts to protect the
polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, a move which
could complicate efforts to sell its habitat to oil majors. The
US House of Representatives held a hearing last week to
investigate the timing of the Chukchi sell off?Comparatively
little is known about the polar bear population in the Chukchi
because there hasn't been an intensive study since the mid-
1990s.
"?The Chukchi Sea is believed to hold 15 billion barrels of
recoverable oil and 76 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The
receding sea ice and record price for crude is tempting
companies into Arctic oil and gas development further out to
sea with potentially disastrous consequences. The agencies
approving the Chukchi sale admit there is a 40% chance of an
oil spill, and that contact with spilt oil is almost certainly fatal
for polar bears."
Art credit: freeimages.co.uk
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