That's why the Gwich'in Indians are opposed to any oil development in the refuge.
But many others believe the only safe approach is to bar any oil development whatsoever in the refuge.
"Oil development cannot be done in an 'environmentally sensitive' manner, " said a Sierra Club statement on its Web site.
The Gwich'in are united in their opposition to oil development, but neighboring Inupiat Eskimos on the North Slope are more divided on the issue.
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For him to come here and face the people who have been fighting oil development for the past 40 years, at least shows some nerve.
This region is quickly becoming uninhabitable because of the oil development.
"Oil development in the arctic wildlife refuge makes as much sense as chopping down the giant redwoods for firewood, " said Jim Walton of the Wilderness Society.
The war and the oil development were explicitly linked in a the February 14th report by John Harker, which was petitioned by the Canadian government to review this nexus.
Perhaps the most formidable competitor is Compact GTL. This UK-based company is focused largely on addressing the problem of what to do with associated gas resulting from oil development that would otherwise be flared or reinjected.
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Since 1990 some of the fiercest confrontations have been over an oil development near Lubicon Lake, Alberta, a golf course expansion at Oka, Quebec, a provincial park in Ipperwash, Ontario, a ski resort at Sun Peaks, British Columbia, and military flights over Labrador.
The fact that infrastructure is already in place for oil sands development and oil already flows through pipelines between the two countries only sweetens the deal.
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In some cases, production costs increase so much that it makes sense not to proceed with oil field development, which in turn impacts total oil production globally.
Environmentalists are openly using the project as a proxy for their general opposition to oil sands development.
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Last month, the French company signed an oil-development pact with the military government.
Shell's other projects include a service station partnership with Sinopec in Jiangsu, and an oil shale development in Jilin Province.
Congress recently held a hearing about it, and the energy bill before lawmakers would step up oil shale development on federal land.
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Should they own shares in the new firm, Cenovus Energy ( CVE) or should they go with Suncor ( SU), one of the pioneers of oil sands development?
He talked about how his administration is pursuing new domestic energy sources, expanding oil and gas production, and reducing our overall reliance on oil through development of renewable energy.
It's no surprise that concerns about fracking began to really rise in 2009, when the practice migrated from states like Texas and Louisiana, where oil and gas development is commonplace, to Pennsylvania, where oil production peaked in 1891.
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Mr. SIEGLER: Today, however, there are potentially new threats for the ferrets, especially in Colorado where oil and gas development is booming.
China also has significant contracts for oil and gas development in Iran.
The Director-General of UNESCO reiterated the position of the World Heritage Committee regarding questions of oil exploration and development at World Heritage sites.
The funding will be provided by revenues from federal oil and gas development, and will not add any additional costs to the federal budget.
Brazil has been a extraordinary leader in biofuels and obviously is also becoming a world player when it comes to oil and gas development.
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For example, both plans, to some extent, embrace shale oil and gas development, which has already helped create 1.8 million U.S. jobs over the past few years.
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