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Article: Ardor for ANWR fortifies opposing camps. (debate over oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's Coastal Plain in Alaska)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- May 1, 1991
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Agreeing only that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's Coastal Plain is unique valuable, conservationists and those who favor opening the area to oil exploration are divided on its best use.
Congress again is debating whether to open the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration and development or to enshrine it forever as an unscathed wilderness area. Perhaps the most sought after chunk of real estate in the country, ANWR has emerged inarguably as the nation's crown jewel for both the oil and environmental-minded communities of America.
"ANWR is truly everyone's crown jewel, not just the crown jewel of the circumpolar ...