We Now Hold This Truth to be Self-Evident
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a pristine piece of land. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a barren piece of land full of mosquitoes and other bothersome bugs. Which statement is true? Both of them are. Opponents of expanded domestic drilling use only the first statement to jin up support for their side. What they don’t tell you is that Area 10-02 in the Coastal Plain north region of ANWR is described by the second statement while the first statement only refers to the southern part of the Refuge. The oil is located in the northern Coastal Plain area where mosquitoes abound.
Don’t believe me? Check out the below video. Luke Puckett and his trusty aide Jack Flock were trying to do a quick YouTube shot for the folks back home when they had to cut it short thanks to a swarm of mosquitoes that was trying to eat them alive.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I remember going on a fishing/wilderness trip up into Canada a few years ago. We eventually ran out of Deet and the mosquitoes swarmed like that and ran us into our tents where we had some relief. The only thing worse than the mosquitoes were the black flies.
I’m not volunteering to work the oil rigs there…