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N/A. "Arctic Wildlife Refuge: Why Trash an American Treasure for a Tiny 
     Percentage of Our Oil Needs?" NRDC: Natural Resources Defense Council. 
     NRDC, 19 Dec. 2011. Web. 14 Mar. 2012. <http://www.nrdc.org/land/ 
     wilderness/arctic.asp>. ~Oil from the refuge would hardly make a dent in 
     our dependence on foreign imports -- leaving our economy and way of life 
     just as exposed to wild swings in worldwide oil prices and supply as it is 
     today.  
      
     ~ Traversed by a dozen rivers and framed by jagged peaks, this spectacular 
     wilderness is a vital birthing ground for polar bears, grizzlies, Arctic 
     wolves, caribou and the endangered shaggy musk ox, a mammoth-like survivor 
     of the last Ice Age.  




- - -. "Opposition to Drilling for Oil & Gas (ANWR, Etc.)." 
     DiscoverTheNetworks.Org: A Guide to the Political Left. 
     DiscoverTheNetworks.Org, 2012. Web. 14 Mar. 2012. 
     <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=165>. 
     ~Greenpeace USA says that “America's Serengeti” would become “a wasteland 
     of roads, pipelines, drilling platforms and oil spills,” further 
     endangering wildlife that “is already gravely threatened by global 
     warming.”  
      
     ~The Natural Resources Defense Council exhorts legislators not to “trash an 
     American treasure” by signing legislation that would permit drilling in 
     ANWR. 
      
     ~Former President Jimmy Carter adds, “The simple fact is, drilling is 
     inherently incompatible with wilderness. The roar alone of road building, 
     trucks, drilling, and generators would pollute the wild music of the 
     Arctic, and be as out of place there as it would be in the heart of 
     Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon." 
      
     ~In reality, ANWR's Area 1002 is a barren, frozen wasteland 
     for much of the year. During its eight-month winter, temperatures drop as 
     low as 70 degrees below zero. The region is shrouded in near-total darkness 
     for five months, and for 56 days there is no sunlight at all. No trees live 
     in this inhospitable region, and wildlife is present for only about six 
     weeks each year. 
      
     ~Opponents of drilling warn that local caribou populations would 
     suffer mass death as a result of any industrial intrusion by man.