TITLE

To Drill or Not to Drill

AUTHOR(S)
Lee, Dwight R.
PUB. DATE
September 2001
SOURCE
Independent Review;Fall2001, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p217
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on the issue of petroleum drilling by oil companies in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Complaints of environmentalists on the environmental implications of drilling; Discussion on the case of oil drilling in the Prudhoe Bay; Impact of technological innovations to horizontal oil drilling.
ACCESSION #
5203805

Tags: GAS drilling (Petroleum engineering);  ARCTIC National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska) -- Environmental conditions;  ENVIRONMENTALISTS;  ARCTIC National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska)

 

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