Arctic Refuge Land Grab

Proponents of drilling in the Arctic Refuge insist that only 2,000 acres within the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain would be disturbed. But this is pure myth.

Why? Because U.S. Geological Survey studies have found that oil in the refuge isn't concentrated in a single, large reservoir.

Rather, it's spread across the coastal plain in more than 30 small deposits, which would require vast networks of roads and pipelines that would fragment the habitat, disturbing and displacing wildlife.

Click on the map above (pdf)
to see this industrial scenario
for yourself.

Photo credits: Musk oxen in the vicinity of the Tamiariak River, with Sadlerochit Mountains in the background, © U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.