"Boosters of Arctic drilling have proposed a shady deal
with the American public. We're asked to allow industry to drill for oil in the last pristine wild place in the United States, and in exchange they'll sell us that oil at great profit to themselves. Worse, there are likely only 3.2 billion barrels of oil under the Refuge, enough to meet America's oil needs for a mere six months. Our last truly wild place for six months of oil. As a businessman who loves wild places, I'd say we'd be fools to take this raw deal." -YVON CHOllNARD, OWNER & FOUNDER, PATAGONIA, INC.
Polar bears, the largest land carnivore, dig their dens In snowdrifts. Almost half of all Alaska's pregnant polar bear den in ANWR. Polar bears are sensitive to disturbances and vulnerable to industrial developments. Scientists and environmentalists, alike, fear the future of Alaska's polar bear amidst oil drilling. However, early testing Indicates that only limited noise penetrates the snow and ice of a bear's den, thus it could be possible that polar bears will be nominally disrupted by oil drilling.
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