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Arctic Oil
CBS News explores the pros and cons of drilling for oil in Alaska. The report is the first TV production that shows the North Slope of Alaska during the formidable polar winter, the prime time for the oil industry and "an ideal time to capture the key environmental and economic issues in the debate..." The segment reports on various possible scenarios considered for the energy industry and the wildlife in Alaska.
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Ground zero
Amicus examines how drilling and other activities of oil companies in Alaska have disturbed the people Nuiqsut, an Inupiat Eskimo village an Alaska's North Slope. "Big oil offered a village of Inupiat Eskimos jobs and economic boom. All it asked for in return was their way of life," the magazine reports. The story reveals that the environmental problems in Alaska include water quality changes, air pollution, land use conflicts, oil spills, increased traffic and noise, and disturbance to fish and wildlife species. The latter has forced Eskimos to give up some of their traditional food. For example, a huge arctic caribou's herd has moved away from the oil development area, and a bottom fish - an Eskimos' delicacy - now has elevated levels of toxics.
Tags: Alaska Wilderness League; Arctic Refuge; Trustees for Alaska; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Alaska Whaling Commission; drilling; politics; President Bush
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No title (id: 8830)
Spokesman-Review/Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle details the conflict over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and efforts by the Reagan and Bush administrations and the oil industry to allow the refuge to be drilled for oil, which are countered by environmentalists who want the area to remain protected and unspoiled, Oct. 13, 1991.
Tags: AK
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No title (id: 7994)
Village Voice (New York) reports on the Bush Administration efforts to overturn the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and to open to oil production the 1.5 million acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, July 23, 1991.