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  It's a national wildlife refuge, not an ANWR

  Never once does Palin call the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by its rightful name, always saying ANWR.  She's says: "ANWR, of course, is a 2,000-acre swath of land in the middle of about a 20 million-acre swath of land."  That's nonsense, of course, because she has reduced the entire refuge to the land that oil companies want.  If the refuge were 2000 acres, it would pretty worthless to very much wildlife.  The 2000 acres at issue, of course, is entirely essential to the survival of the Porcupine Caribou herd of hundreds of thousands of migratory animals.  It's like saying that you can have your entire house except for the kitchen and all its functions.  Without a kitchen, even a bedroom is ultimately useless.  That 2000 acres is where conditions (including winds to prevent complete disruption of breeding by parasitic insects like bot flies, warble flies, and mosquitoes) permit calving.  That is the most sensitive place in the entire range of that herd. Palin did everything she could to avoid giving straight answers, and she certainly isn't going up to acknowledge the true impacts of what drilling in the arctic would do.  And it does absolutely nothing to wean us of oil dependence.  This is a very scary woman. On Palin parries with Charles Gibson on climate change posted 1 year, 1 month ago 15 Responses