Biodiesel Resource

Proponents of drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge insist that only 2,000 acres within the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain would be disturbed. This is most likely false.

The U.S. Geological Survey studies conclude that oil in the refuge is spread across the coastal plain in more than 30 small deposits, which would require vast networks of roads and pipelines that would fragment the habitat, disturbing and displacing wildlife.