Knowledge Quest Magazine covers all general knowledge for class 1-8 published this article page no 12 drilling in the arctic national wildlife refuge (anwr) has become a controversial issue when republicans included the measure in a major defense bill according to democrats and moderate republicans the piece of legislation was embedded in a major defense bill that couldnt be turned down the total bill passed 306 voting for it and 106 against (house approves drilling 2005) the new defense bill will hopefully reduce the federal deficit by 40 billion over the next 5 years (house approves drilling 2005) in addition to deficit reduction some of the money will go for military supplies helping hurricane victims and subsidizing heat to those in poverty republicans feel that the measures are necessary if the white house fiscal obligations will again be on track in 1987 a report directed to congress indicated that there were 26 major oil fields in alaska (adams 1995) these oil fields could potentially supply 10 billion barrels pumped at 365 million barrels a year (cowen & doggett 2005) it would take over 27 years to remove all of the oil even though without doubt that the oil revenues would help the economy and the local alaskan population the necessity of protecting one of the uss largest natural reserves remains unresolved native peoples who are strapped for cash and rising oil prices which damper the nations economy are pitted against environmentalists who want to protect the multitudes of endangered species since humans love to consume and make little effort to conserve natural resources there must be a balance against damaging natural preserves further in an attempt to furnish peoples needs and protecting unspoiled land by keeping the area relatively untouched businesses and governments will be forced to upgrade their fuel efficiency reducing the nations dependence on natural resources by opening the anwr to only a small amount of oil mining instead of the full array of oil companies proposed by the government we can help push the nation into a stronger economic future that is less dependent than competing nations adams jacob (1995 june) arctic slope regional corporation barrow alaska knowledge questions in english buy.
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