In one day the United states consumes, on average, 20 million barrels of oil per day. About 60% is imported from different countries. Given the state of politics the world is in today concerning oil production and its future this puts the united states into a dependent role. So this leads the discussion to the arctic national wildlife refuge or ANWR. This is a protected area in northeastern Alaska which contains 19.8 million acres of land. Of this, there is a section called the “1002 area” which is 1.5 million acres of prospective drilling sites. It holds about 7.7 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil.

1. The Prospects of Oil Drilling in ANWR
ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
By Chelse Rice

2. What is ANWR?
 Animal Refuge
 Snow Plain next to the Arctic Ocean

3. Where is ANWR?

4. Advantages
 America will be less dependent on foreign oil
 New jobs will be created
 Wildlife will not be effected
 Support of Alaskans

5. Disadvantages
 Environmental havoc to the land and wildlife
 No Financial impact on the price of oil
 Roughly one year of oil can be supplied from
ANWR to solely sustain the United States

6. Overall
 Both sides have compelling arguments for
their stance
 Begin the process of extracting the oil
 Or we can continue to protect a wildlife
refuge.

7. For more information
 www.anwr.org
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Refuge_d
rilling_controversy