Drill, Baby, Drill: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Now Open to Drilling

By Ward Clark 

President Trump is unlocking America’s treasure chest. Alaska is open for business, and now in addition to all his other moves, President Trump has opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, for drilling.

Predictably, the legacy media is freaking out.

The Trump administration on Thursday announced a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining tracts of pristine wilderness in the United States.

The decision was the latest twist in a long-running fight over the fate of the refuge’s coastal plain, an unspoiled expanse of 1.56 million acres that is believed to sit atop billions of barrels of oil but is also a critical habitat for polar bears, caribou, migratory birds and other wildlife.

“Pristine wilderness,” it is, but it’s not the beautiful mountains and great expanses of taiga that one generally sees in news stories about Alaska. It’s a cold tundral plain, for the most part. Yes, there is quite a bit of wildlife there, but there is a lot of oil and gas, too, which our country needs. ..

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (redstate.com)

 

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