Can Wilderness Coexist With Oil Exploration?
12 March 2003 - 9:00am
Scars from oil exploration activiy in northern Alaska are still visible eighteen years later.
"The panel found that wildlife had generally adapted well to oil drilling. But the wilderness — in the sense of wildness and sweep and emptiness — was another matter...The panel noted last week that no federal or state rules require oil companies to remove leftover equipment, gravel beds and other vestiges of exploited wells..."
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Debating Whether Oil Wells and Wilderness Mix
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The New York Times, March 11, 2003
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