Drilling in The Arctic

Authors note: I Had to write on this for an assignment in S.S. but i can also use it as an essay in L.A.

America has been wondering if we should drill for oil in the Arctic since 1970. I am against drilling in the Arctic. But there are people that want to drill and people that want to keep the animals and their habitat there alive. Some of the natives there actual want them to drill on their land so they can make the money and probably move somewhere warmer.

According to the ANWR if there was another spill 1000s of animals will die, such as the polar bears, grizzlies, Arctic wolves, caribou and the endangered shaggy musk ox, the water would be contaminated, and it would take forever to clean up. The waste of sewage and scrap metal would get in the water therefore contaminating the drinking water killing people as well as animals. Which would force natives to evacuate their homes.

The ANWR say the drilling would last as long as 6 months which isn't a very long supply at all. The drillers say they would only use 2000 acres of the 17.2 million acres would be used but there isn't just one huge reservoir but 30 separate pools of oil. This would give them reason to expand their oil drilling. After the drilling was done the machines might stay there or be knocked down but either way where ever they were will take a long time to become a home, safe place, or birthing ground for the wildlife.

Most natives that live there are completely against drilling because that is their home land and they want to keep it looking the way it does. But other natives are only in it for money and that’s exactly what they would get out of it but they would also loose land clean water and animals. The ANWR is against the drilling because they have researched every possibility of what could happen and not a lot are good. Most show that the oil supply there would only last 6 months.

Our economy would probably go back up for awhile and oil prices would go down for those 6 months. After the oil supply is gone, the gas prices will shoot way up again, this time probably higher than before we drilled. Drilling in the Arctic doesn’t really help anyone at all and for sure doesn’t help our economy.

I don’t think we should drill in the arctic. Because the environment there would be destroyed, and most of the animals would die. The people who live there could lose some of their resources. Our economy wouldn’t be helped by this at all, and gas prices would just go right back up after all of the supply in the Arctic was gone. So to Americas question if we should drill in the Arctic I would say, no.