Alaskan drilling: Small area, big potential
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Alaskan drilling: Small area, big potential The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, encompasses some 19 million acres of Alaska’s North Slope. New drilling for oil and gas would be limited to 2,000 of the 1.5 million acres set aside in 1980 by Congress and President Carter for potential energy exploration. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates this otherwise barren acreage could yield a million barrels of oil a day — 20 percent of current domestic production.
Alaska ANWR CANADA
This circle is the size of the entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR (19 million acres).
This circle is the size of Alaska (365 million acres).
U.S.
This dot is the size of the proposed drilling area (2,000 acres). To learn more about achieving energy independence, go to heritage.org and click on Energy & Environment. Source: Institute for Energy Research
The Heritage Foundation
Alaskan drilling: Small area, big potential The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, encompasses some 19 million acres of Alaska’s North Slope. New drilling for oil and gas would be limited to 2,000 of the 1.5 million acres set aside in 1980 by Congress and President Carter for potential energy exploration. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates this otherwise barren acreage could yield a million barrels of oil a day — 20 percent of current domestic production.
Alaska ANWR CANADA
This circle is the size of the entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR (19 million acres).
This circle is the size of Alaska (365 million acres).
U.S.
This dot is the size of the proposed drilling area (2,000 acres). To learn more about achieving energy independence, go to heritage.org and click on Energy & Environment. Source: Institute for Energy Research
The Heritage Foundation
