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Green Groups Oppose Oil & Gas Development in Alaska |
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Contributed by Jim Elliott
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
 The U.S. body that is in charge of oil and gas development, the federal Minerals Management Service has said yes to oil and gas development across 46,000 miles of the Chukchi Sea north of the Bering Strait in the Arctic Ocean.
The Alaska Wilderness League, the Northern Alaska Environmental Centre,
the World Wildlife Fund and the National Audubon Society have opposed
the plans as this area contains one of only two American populations of
polar bears. With the impacts of climate change becoming apparent, the
numbers have been in a free-fall in recent years as their norther ice
habitat shrinks.
Photo courtesy of Greenpeace
"The polar bear's existence is increasingly
threatened by the impacts of climate change-induced loss of sea ice, "
said Margaret Williams of the WWF. "The chances for the continued
survival of this icon of the Arctic will be greatly diminished if its
remaining critical habitat is turned into a vast oil and gas field.
While the agency says it will monitor the health of marine mammal
populations as well as pollution throughout the 30 million acre expanse
of ocean in question, environmentalists wonder if such studies will be
too little too late for polar bears and other arctic wildlife".
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