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Originally Posted by danielpalos
There is no reason why the US can't develop better drilling technologies that can reach oil reserves, from outside of nature preserves. Not only could this type of targeted advancement of technologies help improve our standard of living with future applications, but it would also help preserve a state of Nature as it was intended to be preserved.
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Daniel, we have been through this before. You can talk and talk and talk about new drilling tecniques about drilling in the reserve. But you are failing to understand several facts, despite being told over and over again.
The underground mineral and resource rights belong to the federal government. Even if they had the technology to drill horizontally for 70+miles before getting into the reserve, It still is off limits. But the fact of the matter is this. They can do some horizontal or directional drilling today. But nowhere near the 70miles you seem to think they can.
As for the state of nature. You have no idea the scale and scope of what we are talking here. But either way, this should talk about maintaining a state of wilderness for you. Despite the fact that you will probably never go to ANWR, and if you did, youd want to hell out of there so fast a teleportation machine wouldnt be quick enough.
