Terrain, lack of freshwater and uneven snow will make Arctic refuge winter travel difficult, scientists warn
Elsewhere on Alaska's North Slope, oil companies rely on ice roads. In the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, that might not be an option.
March 26, 2019
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In their argument for oil drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, supporters invoke oil companies’ experience of using seasonal ice roads as evidence of a “small footprint” that development would create.
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