Bruce wrote: > > A good indicator of how much environmental impact there would be is > the drilling currently taking place on the North Slope. Everything > needed to support the drilling crews and equipment -- and I mean > everything, food, living supplies, drilling mud, logging/analysis > equipment, the rigs themselves -- has to be trucked in on the Haul > Road, and all the waste has to be trucked back down south for > disposal, so the drilling crews are very good at not wasting any more > than necessary, and their survival depends on not damaging too much of > the permafrost they're sitting on, so "leave no trace" is sort of an > economic necessity up there. I don't see why the lessons learned up > there can't be applied to drilling in ANWR, if there's enough > petroleum there to be worth it. >
Really; leave no trace? I had heard just the opposite, that the North Slope was pretty trashed. Doug _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
