YES! There is no way drilling can be done safely in the remote location.
93%
NO! Companies will drill there regardless, so we may as well approve it.
7%
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IN FACT! There is no technology in existance that can plug an oil well 100% effective ! They will ALL LEAK!!! So it is insane at the beginning!
It has been 26 years since the Exxon-Valdez hit a reef and sent 10.6 million barrels of oil into Prince William Sound and on into the Gulf of Alaska yet remnants of oil still persists and wildlife still has not returned. For some species, it will never return. In that spill, a 500-million birds were killed in the spill, including more than 150 bald eagles and as many as 4,500 sea otters died.
A study done in 2007 shows oil persists 4 to 10 inches below the sands around Prince William Sound. Populations of mollusks still have not returned. It is estimated it will take decades before all the oil will have dissipated from the Exxon-Valdez spill.
Prince William Sound is a lot warmer than the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in the Arctic. A spill in those waters would be devastating. Not only that, but the Shell drill site where Kulluk was drilling, is offshore of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge which is the breeding ground for 132 species of the World's birds. Polar bears, seals, and sea lions swim these waters as do migrating whales.
Yes, an oil spill in the frigid Arctic waters where weather is unpredictable would be a catastrophe of enormous proportions. The entire Arctic Ocean should have had the same protection provided to Antarctica....a preserve where cold water wildlife would be forever protected.