Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts

Monday, July 14, 2008

ANWAR

A friend sent this to me in an email today....


FIRST… do you know what ANWR is?



ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.


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Now… A comparison









And Some perspective


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Note where the porposed development area is...
(it's in the "ANWR Coastal Plain")










This is what those who are against drilling in ANWR show you when they talk about ANWAR













... and they are right... these ARE photographs of ANWR



Isn't ANWR BEAUTIFUL? Why should we drill here (AND DESTROY) this BEAUTIFUL place?






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.........................................Well... That's not exactly the truth


Do you remember the map?
The map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain
Do those photographs look like a coastal plain to you?
????????

THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE…
THAT IS NOT WHERE THEY ARE WANTING TO DRILL!
THIS IS WHAT THE PROPOSED EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE WINTER















AND THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE SUMMER





































HERE ARE A COUPLE SCREEN SHOTS FROM GOOGLE EARTH
(Thanks Google...)

























AS YOU CAN SEE, THE AREA WHERE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT DRILLING IS A BARREN WASTELAND.

OH… AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT ON THE LOCAL WILDLIFE…
HERE IS A PHOTO (SHOT DURING THE SUMMER) OF THE"DEPLETED WILDLIFE" SITUATION CREATED BY DRILLING AROUND PRUDHOE BAY *…DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE CARIBOU REALLY HATE THAT DRILLING?

















Here's that same spot in the Winter.















HEY, THIS BEAR SEEMS TO REALLY HATE THE PIPELINE NEAR PRUDHOE BAY *…










*the Prudhoe bay area accounts for 17% of U.S. domestic oil production





We Need to Drill!

Friday, July 20, 2007

Alaskan Vacation


Just back from a wonderful vacation Cruise to Alaska.

My wife and I celebrated our 25th anniversary and this get-away to this beautiful State was a fabulous way to commemorate this special date.

The was the usual food feast that all Cruise's are known for but I was more impressed with the spectacular views from our balcony ... in fact this photo was taken from our room view at Glacier Bay.

We took about 250 photo's and about 2 1/2 hrs of video so we'll have some memories.

Just a couple of more photo's to share:

These next two photo's are from Victoria Island's Bushart Gardens. I thought this was just another place with lots of flowers, however I was blown away by this place.

Anyways, I'm back and I hope to post more regularly.

... I still can't get over the fact that it was still day light at 12:00am !