http://www.examiner.com/x-37619-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2010m3d31-Obamas-offshore-drilling-plans-will-drive-polar-bears-closer-to-extinction
On March 31, President Obama made it public that a new oil drilling plan in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas off the coast of Alaska, would “greatly expand, oil leasing beyond what was ever authorized by the Bush administration.” The Beaufort and Chukchi Seas are the locations of all the population of all American polar bears. People(conservationist groups) are concerned of this because of the lack of technology to clean oil spills in icy water conditions. This could lead to polar bear deaths, in the court of appeals (DC circuit) put the plans away because of the lack of assessment of environmental impacts. “Short of sending Sarah Palin back to Alaska to personally club polar bear cubs to death, the Obama administration could not have come up with a more efficient extinction plan for the polar bear,” said Cummings.
well why did he do that? couldnt he have picked a different spot to drill for oil?
ReplyDeleteThere is a large amount of oil there, and Obama wants to use the resources that are available to use ( the way he's getting them is inhumane though. )
ReplyDeleteyeah id say because it seems like he doesnt care because if he cared he would have picked a different spot to drill and wasnt harming the polar bears
ReplyDeleteWell there is a rich deposit of oil there, and there happens to be polar bears there, so it's not that he doesn't care, he just wants those resources.
ReplyDeletei guess you could look at it that way but i still think he shouldnt have drilled there
ReplyDeleteHe is going to drill there. America runs on oil.
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