Alaska Drilling

Authors Note's: If workers drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, also known as ANWR it would ruin the natural environment.

Imagine walking across the chilled arctic floor; your sharp claws hitting the ground with every step, then suddenly you stop and you are standing in a puddle of smelly liquid that covers the ground. You look around and all you see is big machines and men with long tubes that are attached to the ground. You wonder what they are doing and why they are destroying the land, you realize you can't stay there any longer; there is no sign of any other life around. Then you think about what it used to be like when you would be walking around on white clean snow and hear crashes from big glaciers falling and you would see polar bears, but not all you see is melting snow and men working. There is no more polar bears because they were driven out of their homes by all the drilling going on. That's how the animals that live in AWNR would feel if people were drilling where their homes are in Alaska. They would all have to find somewhere else to go where they would be safe.

Drilling in ANWR for oil is a very bad idea, one reason being it will destroy a large amount the wild life. The thing that would be most affected by the drilling would be the environment. The oil could leak anywhere and be carried in streams and that would hurt the natural environment. Nothing people say can change the fact that the workers would be destroying the clean untouched environment. Just exposing oil to the environment could hurt it. Which is part of the reason why I think that everyone should just deal with the amount of oil that we have. All of the oil isn't gone so there is no point in getting more oil when we still have some.

This whole thing would be different if it was all dead and not a wild life refuge, but it is made for wild life not to be destroyed by people trying to find more of what we already have plenty of. It gets us nowhere when we find more oil, the gas prices won't go down because it is still expensive because it is a high demand in most countries in the US.

This piece of land is called Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for a reason, it is meant for wild life. Not to be destroyed by people looking for oil. If it was really worth drilling for this oil there wouldn't be so much question behind weather to drill for the oil or not.