On Meet the Press, Maria Bartoromo just repeated Sarah Palin's lie as fact about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Lie: Drilling will only occupy 2000 ACRES.
Maria B. repeated Palin's seductive lie at least 4 times in describing last week's interview with the inexperienced Governor.
The Facts: 2000 acres refers only to the square footage under the drilling pads. The area impacted is actually millions of acres of pads, roads, pipelines, facilities, pumping stations emission sources......
"2000 ACRES" IS ACTUALLY 1,500,000 ACRES OF INDUSTRIAL SPRAWL!
Here is a map of the 2000 acre scam.
And the text. Digg it.
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To say that it’s only going to impact 2,000 acres is an OUTRIGHT LIE.
One word: INFRASTRUCTURE.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, oil in the refuge is not concentrated in one large reservoir within a 2,000-acre area but is spread across its 1.5-million-acre coastal plain in more than 30 small deposits. To produce oil from this vast area, supporting infrastructure would have to stretch across the coastal plain.
Facilities NOT subject to the 2,000-acre limitation include:
• Roads (in-field roads; main roads to docks, etc.)
• Pipelines (main trunk and sales lines, feeder lines; except negligible amount for support posts (VSM’s))
• 8 Gravel Mines @ 150 acres each
Facilities and activities not subject to the 2,000-acre limitation that are not mapped:
• Seismic exploration trials
• Exploration and delineation wells
• Water reservoir excavations, Water withdrawal sites
• Ice roads
For reference: Oil companies in the North Slope oil fields excavated gravel from mines that stretched over 2,000 acres, and then covered 10,000 acres of tundra with gravel for roads, drilling pads and building foundations.
There is absolute evidence of the negative impact of oil exploration and development on wildlife. The refuge’s coastal plain is a breeding ground for caribou, home to polar bears and musk oxen and site of an annual influx of migratory birds.
Biologists have found that decreased caribou calving within a 2.5-mile zone of pipelines and roads show that the "extent of avoidance greatly exceeds the physical ‘footprint’ of an oil-field complex."
We must EXPOSE Palin's LIE!