Alaska mulls extra oil drilling to cope with climate change

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Alaska mulls extra oil drilling to cope with climate change

By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, BBC News, Alaska

12 October 2015 Science & Environment

Expanding the search for oil is necessary to pay for the damage caused by climate change, the Governor of Alaska has told the BBC.

The state is suffering significant climate impacts from rising seas forcing the relocation of remote villages.

Governor Bill Walker says that coping with these changes is hugely expensive.

He wants to "urgently" drill in the protected lands of the Arctic National Wilderness Refuge to fund them.

Alaska has been severely hit by the dramatic drop in the price of oil over the past two years.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34501867

[FBaggins]

1. Brilliant

Particularly when prices are so low.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. We need to bleed the patient

in order to treat his worsening anemia.

[Nihil]

3. There are occasions when the sheer stupidity of people leaves me speechless. (n/t)