AP Environmental Science!
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  • Introduction to APES!
    • #Unit 1>
      • The Lorax vs. Easter Island!
      • Happy Fishing Lab - Tragedy of the Common Question!
      • Justification for Preserving the Environment!
      • Human Footprint!
      • Earth Day Network Footprint Calculator!
      • APES -"The Story of Stuff"!
      • Chapter 2: Science As a Way Of Knowing!
      • The case of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker!
    • #Unit 2>
      • Chapter 6: Biogeochemical Cycles!
      • Cycling Web Quest!
      • Carbon Cycle
      • Dissolved Oxygen Lab!
      • Terrestrial Biomes- Study Guide!
      • Wet Lands Article!
      • The Fish and The Forest!
      • Water Cycle
      • Nitrogen Passport!
      • Ocean Acidification- Laboratory Report!
      • Dangers of Ocean Acidification!
      • Chapter 3- Guided Reading!
      • Enriching the Sea to Death!
      • Aquatic Ecosystem- Study Guide!
      • Intro to Biomes!
      • Life in the Ocean - Article!
      • An earth without people! - Article!
      • Mt. St. Helens: Back from the dead video worksheet!
      • Ecological Succession Notes/Activity!
      • Nitrogen Cycle
      • The Ocean's Invisible Forest!
    • #Unit 3>
      • Unit #3 -Presentation and Study Guide!
      • Bozeman Science: Ecosystems Guided Viewing
      • Food Thought!
      • Oh Deer Lab!
      • Bornoe Video! - Question
      • Natural Selection Guided Viewing!
      • Population Guided Viewing!
      • Communities Guided Viewing!
      • Chapter #5- Guided Reading!
      • Keystone Species- Notes
      • Chapter #8- Guided Reading!
      • Biodiversity- Guided Reading!
      • Reproductive Isolation & Speciation Guided Viewing
      • Exponential & Logistic Growth- Guided Viewing!
      • Biodiversity Hotspots Activity!
      • Galapagos Case Study
      • R and K Selection Guided Viewing
      • Ecosystems on the Brink Summary & Discussion
      • How Big Is My Population?
      • Something Fishy- Lab report
      • Comparing Biodiversity: Spider's, Spider's Everywhere!
      • Gorillas in the Mist- Reflection
      • Endangered Species New's Letter!
      • Wanted Poster!
    • #Unit 4>
      • Apes in a Box: Endangered Species
      • Fishing Harvesting Technique
      • Threats to Biodiversity- Guided Viewing Worksheet
      • Bushmeat DNA Blast Assignment
      • Grasslands and Range lands: Guided Reading
      • Mapping the National Park
      • Case Study: Corridors
      • When a Tree Falls Illegally in the Forest Writing Assignment
      • Which species will live? - Article Review!
      • Can sustanaible management help save tropical forest? - Article Review
      • On the termination of species! - Article Review
      • Saving the honeybee! - Article Review
      • Conservation for the people! - Article Review
    • #Unit 5>
      • Environmental History and Law - Guided Viewing
      • Response to "Silent Spring"
      • Botkin and Keller Chapter 7
      • The Omnivore's Dilemma Part 1
    • #Unit 6>
      • Chapter 4 - Guided Reading!
      • Four Stages of Demographics!
      • Chapter 27 - Guided Review!
      • Urban Heat Island Guided Viewing!
      • Human Population GV Worksheet!
      • The Human Population Grows Up
      • Demographic Transition Video
      • Population, Poverty and the Local Environment!
      • How Green is My City
    • #Unit 7>
      • Human Population and Carrying Capacity!
      • Kermit or Kermette Case!
      • Chapter 10 - Guided Reading!
      • Toxicology Problem Set
      • Lungs Toxicology Problem Set
      • Home Toxin Audit!
      • Toxin's in your Neighborhood!
      • The Story of Cosmetics Notes!
      • The Story of Electronics Notes!
      • Radioactive Smoke!
      • Tuna for Lunch- Case Study
      • Risk Survey
      • Lead Shot in Trumpeter Swans
      • Chapter #23 - Guided Reading!
      • Solid & Hazardous Waste PPT
      • Arsenic in Drinking Water
      • Water Quality Index
      • Recycle City
      • Fast Food Wasteland Project
      • Landfilll Notes
      • The Dangers of Plastic Bags
      • Addicted to Plastics - Newsletter
      • Rescue Worker's Dilemma -Case Study
      • LD- 50 Lab Report
      • Radon Notes/Guided Viewing
      • Excessive Packaging! - Article
      • Water Pollution Notes
      • Decibel Dilemma- Article
      • Omnivore's Dilemma- Chapter #2
    • #Unit 8>
      • Chapter #19 - Guided Reading
      • Fracking Article
      • Bioremediation Assignment!
      • Virtual Water Testing Lab
      • Using Invertebrates for Water Indicators
      • Poison in the Rockies Reflection
      • Wading in Wasting - Article
      • Mountain Removal Webquest
      • Clean Energy from Filthy Water - Article
      • Gasland Summary
      • Chapter #18 Guided Reading
      • Water Diversions Webquest
      • Blue Gold: Water Wards, Reflection
      • Water Footprint Calculator
      • Down Go the Dams - Article
      • Facing the Freshwater Crisis - Article
      • The Horse and the Urban Environment
    • Unit #10>
      • Chapter #11 - Guided Viewing Worksheet
      • Phosporus - A Looming Crisis
      • Soil Profile - Video notes
      • Dirt: The Movie - Video Notes
      • APES in a Box: Soil Pyramid - Video Notes
      • Food, Inc - Video Notes
      • The Omnivore's Dilemma - Chapter #4
      • Lab: Soil Column Lab
    • Spring Break Assignments>
      • "Harvest of Fear" - Guided Viewing Worksheet & Persuasive Essay
      • Guess What's Coming to Dinner - Take Notes
      • Should We Grow GM Crops?
      • Engineer a Crop
      • Integrated Pest Management & Biological Pest Control
      • Micheal Pollan Notes
      • Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization? - Article
      • Climate Change Book
    • Unit #9>
      • Chapter #20 - PPT & Notes
      • Worksheet: Carbon Cycle & The Greenhouse Effect
      • A Plan to Keep Carbon in Check
      • Ozone - Online Assignment
      • Smog City Activity
      • An Inconvenient Truth - Reflection
      • The Green House Hamburger - Article
      • The Ocean and Weather - Article
    • Unit #11>
      • Chapter #14-15 - Guided Reading!
      • Article: The Artic Oil & Wildlife Refuge
      • Home Energy Audit
      • Apes in the box: Fossil Fuels
      • Chapter 16-17 - Guided Review
      • Energy Comparison Chart/Energy Review Sheet
      • The False Promise of Biofuels
      • The Rise of Renewable Energy
    • Unit #12>
      • The Omnivore’s Dilemma Chapter #5- Reading Guide
      • The Omnivore’s Dilemma Chapter #6 - Guided Reading
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Main Point's:

  • Second only to Prudoe among the most oil-rich onshore fields yet found in North America.
  • Kuparuk has grown since its opening in 1981 into a scatter shot of gravel well pads connected over 800 square miles by a web of roads and pipes to giant processing plants, camp buildings, vehicles lots, and dark pits full of rock and mud drilled from the deep.
  • Alpine is the newest and westernmost of the North Slope oil fields, but not for long.
  • When its valves opened in November 2000, crude oil flowed the 50 miles back to Pump Station 1 near Deadhorse- as all oil produced.
  • The plant's maximum output of almost 90,000 barrels a day.
  • The pipe to Deadhorse can carry much more.
  • Alpine the future of the hydrocarbon industry on the North Slope heads in three directions at once.
  • It will continue westward into the 23 million-acre NPR-A on which Alpine borders.
  • The future may lead southward as well. 
  • Soaring gas prices spurred North Slope companies last year to commit millions of dollars to plan 10 billion natural gas pipeline.
  • Full development of the 1002 area would most likely produce about seven billion barrels of profitable oil.
  • 1998 analysis by the U.S Geological Survey, but only if North Slope oil prices remain above $24 a barrel.
  • The refuge were opened to exploration this year, oil production from the area would probably begin around 2010.
  • The flow of oil would rise to a peak rate around 2030 of roughly one million barrels is a day.
  • Just under 4 percent of U.S daily consumption.
  • An independent estimate by Jean Laherrere of Petroconsultants in Geneva put the peak flow at just over 700,000 barrels a day however.
  • ANWR also probably holds about fourtytrillion cubi feet of natural gas within the 1002 Area, the USGS estimates.
  • Gas production would require construction of a new gas pipe line to connect the North Slope to the lower 48 states.
Author Point's:
           Many oil companies want to take over the wildlife reservation which can harm and affect most of our last frontier. Also if they took over that last wild life habitat then things can be ruin to us such as, many wild life wouldn't exist and the habitat would be destroy. Such as, drillers no longer dump their cutting and sewage and garbage into surface pits, these are now either burned or injected deep into wells. Also, if the drill pads are served by short air strips rather than long networks of roads, the caribou may fear them less and suffer little displacement. The author point of publishing this article is to tell the world that drilling oil into a reserve area can ruin many things. Their are purpose why this lands is being take care of because their are things that will help us in the future.
My thought's:
         After reading this article its really mad and sad how this oil company wants to drill into a reservoir land. All they think about is the oil that is under that land and just want to drill it because they only care is about money. Most of them didn't even think about the future and how helpful is that oil going to be useful for our country. But some people are just really ignorant and only think for themselves which made me really upset. If this oil company think about the future then they will probably be successful rather than doing it fast.
So What?
Most of the oil is located in a reservoir areas.

What if?
IF we save that oil then we are prepared for future.

Says who?
anwr.org

What this remind you of?
The goldfish lab.
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