Alaska Residents Remain Divided Over Arctic Oil
30 November 2000 - 12:00pm
The world's last great wilderness is also a "political football."
"Drilling advocates...scoff at the claim that drilling in this relatively small area would disrupt wildlife. Opponents of drilling...maintain that [drilling] would interfere with the web of life in the refuge."
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Alaska Residents Remain Divided Over Arctic Oil
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National Geographic, November 30, 2000
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