Sep 15, 2017 ... Donald Trump's vow to open new land for exploration sets up an epic showdown  over ANWR: pro-drilling Alaskans vs. environmentalists. ... Senate Bill 49—on the  table now—would limit ANWR's development to only 2,000 acres, or “the size of  Dulles airport,” Senator Sullivan tells me. That would include ...
Jun 21, 2012 ... Located east of the Prudhoe Bay oil field, the refuge could possess one of the  country's largest untapped onshore supply of oil. (You can read more about that  in this PolitiFact report, which examined Sarah Palin's 2008 claim that ANWR  drilling would affect "2,000 out of 20-million acres.") Weldon does have ...
That is like saying, do not worry, the tumor is only in your lungs. The drilling will  have impacts that will affect wildlife throughout the area.” --Rep. Sherwood  Boehlert (R-NY) April 10, 2003, CR H3251. Drilling bills in the 110th Congress  would open protected wildlife habitats in the entire 1.5 million acre. Arctic  National Wildlife ...
Potential Impacts of Proposed Oil and Gas Development on the Arctic Refuge's  Coastal Plain: Historical Overview and Issues of Concern ... These two actions  laid out a general land use pattern for northern Alaska by setting aside about 43  million acres for potential oil and gas development, while the northeastern corner  ...
Nov 14, 2017 ... Development of a tiny, oil-rich section of ANWR will contribute to American  energy dominance by adding 1 million barrels of oil in daily production, roughly a  quarter of our net ... Today, effective oil exploration would need just 2,000 acres,  an area about the size of the Talladega Superspeedway complex.
Drilling in ANWR would have minimal impact, covering only "2,000 out of 20-million acres."