ANWR Drilling Stopped

enblethen wrote:
Getting off topic.
Started with ANWR, now talking emissions.
Should stay with stop drilling and mining within national wildlife, national monuments and national parks.
R-establish boundaries reduced under previous administration for use by the public.

With the mass of people heading into the outdoors shouldn't there be a few places where one gets the sense of being in the middle of nowhere?

Fishing is great in Kona, Hawaii-top of the line boats, food, accomodations, easy travel, etc, but I enjoy being in places like Pinas Bay, Panama and Acklins Island, Bahamas even more because they come with that end of the earth feeling.

Floated the Middle Fork of the Salmon in Idaho a few years back, fun rafting, great scenery, but for a Wild and Scenic River it was like Times Square.

ANWAR was opened up for oil AND to piss people off. Only 2 leases sold to actual oil companies, some were bought by AK in the hopes of reselling them, and others went unsold....no major oil companies even bid on any of it. Hopefully we're going to get past that type of thinking.

The Pebble Mine same thing, but Jr put the kibosh on that - thankfully. Another example is opening up 9 million acres in the Tongass NF for logging. I worked in the Tongass laying out timber sales in fact, and I love logging and forestry, and there is a place for it in the Tongass and other NF but 9 million acres!!!

We're better than this, we're smarter, we can learn to use what we have and mine and log and extract energy from areas already in production w/out messing up these incredibly pristine, productive places. Yeah these new places are untapped and cost of extraction is probably going to be lower/unit, but we don't need to supply cheap commodities at the expense of our heritage. Once it's tampered with, it's gone forever.