The whole oiint of a reserve is that it GOES UNTOUCHED BY HUMANS!!!!!
Nice, just nice. And yes this WILL affect the land....you are draining something from underneath the land, that adds to the whole ecosystem. Say buh byez to many animals in Alaska. All I can say is thank god Paul Martin is doing the opposite for Canada.
And here's a small article:
US Senate narrowly voted to drill in ANWR – but decision not done yet!
Yesterday, March 16th, the US Senate voted 51 to 49 to keep language in their version of the US Budget to open Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge — and the calving grounds of the Porcupine Caribou Herd — to drilling. Gail Norton, US Secretary of the Interior, repeated her description of the Refuge as big, white nothingness, also insisting drilling would be done with sensitivity. Senator Ted Stevens told the Senate that Gwich'in people don’t live in the Refuge, so they can’t know what will affect the caribou. Another Senator said this issue was about jobs… All are outright lies.