Post by Okwes on Feb 8, 2006 10:51:46 GMT -5
Oil & Culture (environment)
In Kaktovik, a village at the northern edge of the oil-rich coastal
plain of the refuge, 280 Inupiat Eskimos have been waiting more than 25
years to find out if they can drill on land they hold inside the refuge.
And the Gwich'in, a caribou-hunting tribe whose 8,000 members are
scattered across 15 villages in Canada and along the refuge's southern
border in Alaska, fear that drilling in the calving grounds of the
Porcupine caribou herd could jeopardize their major food source and
their culture.
Story @:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/03/ANWR.TMP
In Kaktovik, a village at the northern edge of the oil-rich coastal
plain of the refuge, 280 Inupiat Eskimos have been waiting more than 25
years to find out if they can drill on land they hold inside the refuge.
And the Gwich'in, a caribou-hunting tribe whose 8,000 members are
scattered across 15 villages in Canada and along the refuge's southern
border in Alaska, fear that drilling in the calving grounds of the
Porcupine caribou herd could jeopardize their major food source and
their culture.
Story @:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/03/ANWR.TMP