usual suspect > wrote:
>Rubystars wrote:
><...>
>>>Drilling doesn't automatically equate with "ruining" areas. How many
>> people ever
>>>plan to visit that part of ANWR which has been proposed for limited
>> drilling?
>> Hopefully as few people as possible. It's better for the
>> wildlife that way.
>
>It won't take very many to drill the oil or build the pipelines.

But it isn't the "people count" that causes a problem. It's the
roads, the oil rigs, the airports, the garbage dumps, the gravel
pits, and to a lesser degree the pipelines that are problems.

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Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)