The refuge provides a home to many different, and nearly extinct animals including: musk oxen, caribou, migratory birds, Dall sheep, as well as grizzly, black, and polar bears; and this is just a short list. ... First, oil exploration and extraction activities are concentrated in the refuge's most critical and sensitive areas such as calving grounds for the Porcupine caribou herd and denning areas fro one of America's two polar bear populations. ...

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To drill or not to drill? That has been the question for the last 20 years, since Presidents Regan and Bush began to explore the notion of drilling for oil in the ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). Only within the last 10 though, has this idea been seriously pursued by Republicans at both the...

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To Drill or Not Drill The scarcity of oil becomes a more and more serious issue in our country. The oil price rises from below $10 a barrel in 1998 to $26 per barrel in 2001. Our government is planning to drill oil from Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ANWR in Alaska to solve the oil crisis. ...

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