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As a matter of fact you can't take your eyes off these people
Oil companies target the fragile Arctic continental shelf for oil drilling |
David Roberts |
08 Nov 2007 |
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| You're probably against drilling in the Alaskan Refuge, but what you really ought to be worried about is offshore drilling on Alaska's continental shelf, which isn't protected by law or by close attention from environmentalists -- and where the likelihood and impact of accidents are far worse. Read Peter Matthiessen's definitive piece in The Nation: When one considers the more than four thousand spills -- over one a day -- recorded by the oil industry in its land ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, energy, oceans, oil, oil and gas drilling, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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