
SCE034-00002
A light plane flies over the sea ice off the coast of ANWR. In the last few months, offshore oil leases have been completed along the coast in order to get at what drillers hope will be a profitable oil field. Environmentalists warn that an oil spill under arctic ice would have disastrous consequences.
Keywords
- ANWR
- Arctic
- arctic national wildlife refuge
- fly
- Ice
- National Wildlife Refuge
- North slope
- Plane
- Sea
- Shadow
- wildlife
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