Negligence

The environment is critical! Environmentalists down east are quick to cry negligence on the part of big business and of course, they are often right. But, where were the environmentalists when it came to a derelict tanker in the pristine waters of the Chukchi Sea? Ignorance and politics keeps drilling out of The Anwar with little or no potential harm to the environment at incredibly huge financial loss to Alaska while an oil spill of disastrous proportions occurs for lack of regulation. The damage resulting to the environment will be a thousand times, no, a million times greater than drilling under present environmental safeguards, and the economic damage to Alaska once again goes without measure.

This is but the first hit. Moving cargo through the Arctic Oceans saves many miles, but up there lays the risk of ice pack and storm. It is shear negligence for there not to be at least a push for restriction of crude oil through these regions of critical sea life. The only risk to wildlife or fauna in the Anwar is to the mosquito but the sea life in the region of this oil spill is immense, pristine and the livelihood of thousands of Alaskans. It is not as though an oil spill has not happened here before. The damage done by the Exxon-Valdes remains evident in Kachemak bay today almost 15 years later. I can only cry about the damage done by this current disaster, never mind the loss of life. Click here for picture and story of the Selendang Ayu off Unalaska in the Anchorage Daily News.