Arctic Refuge drilling controversy - wikipedia Arctic Refuge drilling controversy Boundary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR ) in yellow The question of whether to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR ) has been an ongoing political controversy in the United States since 1977. As of 2017, Republicans have attempted to allow drilling in ANWR almost fifty times, finally being successful with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. ANWR comprises 19 million acres ( 7.7 million ha ) of the north Alaskan coast. The land is situated between the Beaufort Sea to the north, Brooks Range to the south, and Prudhoe Bay to the west. It is the largest protected wilderness in the United States and was created by Congress under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980. Section 1002 of that act deferred a decision on the management of oil and gas exploration and development of 1.5 million acres ( 610,000 ha ) in the coastal plain, known as the `` 1002 area ''. The controversy surrounds drilling for oil in this subsection of ANWR. Much of the debate over whether to drill in the 1002 area of ANWR rests on the amount of economically recoverable oil, as it relates to world oil markets, weighed against the potential harm oil exploration might have upon the natural wildlife, in particular the calving ground of the Porcupine caribou. In their documentary Being Caribou the Porcupine herd was followed in its yearly migration by author and wildlife biologist John Heuer and filmmaker Leanne Allison to provide a broader understanding of what is at stake if the oil drilling should happen, and educating the public. In 2014, President Barack Obama proposed declaring an additional 5 million acres of the refuge as a wilderness area, which would put a total of 12.8 million acres ( 5.2 million ha ) of the refuge permanently off - limits to drilling or other development, including the coastal plain where oil exploration has been sought. In 2017, the Republican - controlled House and Senate included in tax legislation a provision that would open the 1002 area of ANWR to oil and gas drilling. It passed both the Senate and House of Representatives on December 20, 2017. President Trump signed it into law on December 22, 2017. Contents 1 History 2 Department of Energy projections and estimates 2.1 Estimates of oil reserves 2.2 Projected impact on global oil price 3 Support for drilling 4 Opposition to drilling 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History Mars Ice Island, a 60 - day offshore exploratory well off Cape Halkett, over 30 miles ( 48 km ) from Nuiqsut, Alaska Area 1002 of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, looking south toward the Brooks Range mountains Before Alaska was granted statehood on January 3, 1959, virtually all 375 million acres ( 152 million ha ) of the Territory of Alaska was federal land and wilderness. The act granting statehood gave Alaska the right to select 103 million acres ( 42 million ha ) for use as an economic and tax base. In 1966, Alaska Natives protested a Federal oil and gas lease sale of lands on the North Slope claimed by Natives. Late that year Secretary of the interior Stewart Udall ordered the lease sale suspended, and shortly thereafter announced a ' freeze ' on the disposition of all Federal land in Alaska, pending Congressional settlement of Native land claims. These claims were settled in 1971 by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, which granted them 44 million acres ( 18 million ha ). The act also froze development on federal lands pending a final selection of parks, monuments, and refuges. The law was set to expire in 1978. Toward the end of 1976, with the Trans - Alaska Pipeline System virtually complete, major conservation groups shifted their attention to how best to protect the hundreds of millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness unaffected by the pipeline. On May 16, 1979, the United States House of Representatives approved a conservationist - backed bill that would have protected more than 125 million acres ( 51 million ha ) of Federal lands in Alaska, including the calving ground of the nation 's largest caribou herd. Backed by President Jimmy Carter, and sponsored by Morris K. Udall and John B. Anderson, the bill would have prohibited all commercial activity in 67 million acres ( 270,000 km ) designated as wilderness areas. The U.S. Senate had opposed similar legislation in the past and filibusters were threatened. On December 2, 1980, Carter signed into law the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which created more than 104 million acres ( 42 million ha ) of national parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas from Federal holdings in that state. The bill allowed drilling in ANWR, but not without the approval of Congress and the completion of an Environmental Impact Study ( EIS ). Both sides of the controversy announced they would attempt to change it in the next session of Congress. Section 1002 of the act stated that a comprehensive inventory of fish and wildlife resources would be conducted on 1.5 million acres ( 0.61 million ha ) of the Arctic Refuge coastal plain ( 1002 Area ). Potential petroleum reserves in the 1002 Area were to be evaluated from surface geological studies and seismic exploration surveys. No exploratory drilling was allowed. Results of these studies and recommendations for future management of the Arctic Refuge coastal plain were to be prepared in a report to Congress. In 1985, Chevron drilled a 15,000 foot ( 4,600 m ) test bore on a private tract inside the border of ANWR. The well was capped. The results are a closely held secret. Caribou calving grounds, 1983 -- 2001 In November 1986, a draft report by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service recommended that all of the coastal plain within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge be opened for oil and gas development. It also proposed to trade the mineral rights of 166,000 acres ( 67,000 ha ) in the refuge for surface rights to 896,000 acres ( 363,000 ha ) owned by corporations of six Alaska native groups, including Aleuts, Eskimos and Tlingits. The report said that the oil and gas potentials of the coastal plain were needed for the country 's economy and national security. Conservationists said that oil development would unnecessarily threaten the existence of the Porcupine caribou by cutting off the herd from calving areas. They also expressed concerns that oil operations would erode the fragile ecological systems that support wildlife on the tundra of the Arctic plain. The proposal faced stiff opposition in the House of Representatives. Morris Udall, chairman of the House Interior Committee, said he would reintroduce legislation to turn the entire coastal plain into a wilderness area, effectively giving the refuge permanent protection from development. The ANWR 1002 area coastal plain On July 17, 1987, the United States and the Canadian government signed the `` Agreement on the Conservation of the Porcupine Caribou Herd '' a treaty designed to protect the species from damage to its habitat and migration routes. Canada has special interest in the region because its Ivvavik National Park and Vuntut National Park borders the refuge. The treaty required an impact assessment and required that where activity in one country is `` likely to cause significant long - term adverse impact on the Porcupine Caribou Herd or its habitat, the other Party will be notified and given an opportunity to consult prior to final decision ''. This focus on the Porcupine caribou led to the animal becoming a visual rhetoric or symbol of the drilling issue much in the same way the polar bear has become the image of global warming. In March 1989, a bill permitting drilling in the reserve was `` sailing through the Senate and had been expected to come up for a vote '' when the Exxon Valdez oil spill delayed and ultimately derailed the process. In 1996, the Republican - majority House and Senate voted to allow drilling in ANWR, but this legislation was vetoed by President Bill Clinton. Toward the end of his presidential term environmentalists pressed Clinton to declare the Arctic Refuge a U.S. National Monument. Doing so would have permanently closed the area to oil exploration. While Clinton did create several refuge monuments, the Arctic Refuge was not among them. Oil - stained sandstone near crest of Marsh Creek anticline, 1002 area A 1998 report by the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that there was between 5.7 billion barrels ( 910,000,000 m ) and 16.0 billion barrels ( 2.54 × 10 m ) of technically recoverable oil in the designated 1002 area, and that most of the oil would be found west of the Marsh Creek anticline. The term technically recoverable oil is based on the price per barrel where oil that is more costly to drill becomes viable with rising prices. When Non-Federal and Native areas are excluded, the estimated amounts of technically recoverable oil are reduced to 4.3 billion barrels ( 680,000,000 m ) and 11.8 billion barrels ( 1.88 × 10 m ). These figures differed from an earlier 1987 USGS report that estimated smaller quantities of oil and that it would be found in the southern and eastern parts of the 1002 area. However the 1998 report warned that the `` estimates can not be compared directly because different methods were used in preparing those parts of the 1987 Report to Congress ''. In the 2000s, the House of Representatives and Senate repeatedly voted on the status of the refuge. President George W. Bush pushed to perform exploratory drilling for crude oil and natural gas in and around the refuge. The House of Representatives voted in mid-2000 to allow drilling. In April 2002 the Senate rejected it. In 2001 Time 's Douglas C. Waller said the Arctic Refuge drilling issue has been used by both Democrats and Republicans as a political device, especially through contentious election cycles. the Republican - controlled House of Representatives again approved Arctic Refuge drilling as part of the 2005 energy bill on April 21, 2005, but the House -- Senate conference committee later removed the Arctic Refuge provision. The Republican - controlled Senate passed Arctic Refuge drilling on March 16, 2005 as part of the federal budget resolution for fiscal year 2006. That Arctic Refuge provision was removed during the reconciliation process, due to Democrats in the House of Representatives who signed a letter stating they would oppose any version of the budget that had Arctic Refuge drilling in it. On December 15, 2005, Republican Alaska Senator Ted Stevens attached an Arctic Refuge drilling amendment to the annual defense appropriations bill. A group of Democratic Senators led a successful filibuster of the bill on December 21, and the language was subsequently removed. On June 18, 2008, President George W. Bush pressed Congress to reverse the ban on offshore drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in addition to approving the extraction of oil from shale on federal lands. Despite his previous stance on the issue, Bush said the growing energy crisis was a major factor for reversing the Presidential Executive Order issued by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, which banned coastal oil exploration, and oil and gas leasing on most of the outer continental shelf. In conjunction with the Presidential order, the Congress had enacted a moratorium on drilling in 1982, and renewed it annually. In January 2015, President Barack Obama proposed to designate 12.28 million acres ( 4.97 million ha ) of the refuge, including the coastal plain, as wilderness, prohibiting drilling. In 2017, the Republican - controlled House and Senate included in tax legislation a provision that would open the 1002 area of ANWR to oil and gas drilling. Department of Energy projections and estimates Estimates of oil reserves Projected levels of increased oil production from ANWR to mean Alaskan production volumes In 1998, the USGS estimated that between 5.7 and 16.0 billion barrels ( 2.54 × 10 m ) of technically recoverable crude oil and natural gas liquids are in the coastal plain area of ANWR, with a mean estimate of 10.4 billion barrels ( 1.65 × 10 m ), of which 7.7 billion barrels ( 1.22 × 10 m ) lie within the Federal portion of the ANWR 1002 Area. In comparison, the estimated volume of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in the rest of the United States is about 120 billion barrels ( 1.9 × 10 m ). The ANWR and undiscovered estimates are categorized as prospective resources and therefore, not proven oil reserves. The United States Department of Energy ( DOE ) reports U.S. proved reserves are roughly 29 billion barrels ( 4.6 × 10 m ) of crude and natural gas liquids, of which 21 billion barrels ( 3.3 × 10 m ) are crude. A variety of sources compiled by the DOE estimate world proved oil and gas condensate reserves to range from 1.1 to 1.3 trillion barrels ( 170 × 10 ^ to 210 × 10 ^ m ). The DOE reported there is uncertainty about the underlying resource base in ANWR. `` The USGS oil resource estimates are based largely on the oil productivity of geologic formations that exist in the neighboring State lands and which continue into ANWR. Consequently, there is considerable uncertainty regarding both the size and quality of the oil resources that exist in ANWR. Thus, the potential ultimate oil recovery and potential yearly production are highly uncertain. '' A considerable source for the uncertainty is due to the fact that the Department of Energy - based these estimates of technically recoverable oil on extremely low price per barrel figures ranging from $12 to $24 per barrel, which has not been seen in a long time. In 2010, the USGS revised an estimate of the oil in the National Petroleum Reserve -- Alaska ( NPRA ), concluding that it contained approximately `` 896 million barrels of conventional, undiscovered oil ''. The NPRA is west of ANWR. The reason for the decrease is because of new exploratory drilling, which showed that many areas that were believed to hold oil actually hold natural gas. The opening of the ANWR 1002 Area to oil and natural gas development is projected to increase U.S. crude oil production starting in 2018. In the mean ANWR oil resource case, additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR reaches 780,000 barrels per day ( 124,000 m / d ) in 2027 and then declines to 710,000 barrels per day ( 113,000 m / d ) in 2030. In the low and high ANWR oil resource cases, additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR peaks in 2028 at 510,000 and 1.45 million barrels per day ( 231,000 m / d ), respectively. Between 2018 and 2030, cumulative additional oil production is projected to be 2.6 billion barrels ( 410,000,000 m ) for the mean oil resource case, while the low and high resource cases project a cumulative additional oil production of 1.9 and 4.3 billion barrels ( 680,000,000 m ), respectively. In 2007, the United States consumed 20.68 m bbls of petroleum products per day. It produced roughly 5 million barrels per day ( 790,000 m / d ) of crude oil, and imported 10 million barrels per day ( 1,600,000 m / d ) of crude and 3.5 million barrels per day ( 560,000 m / d ) of petroleum products. Projected impact on global oil price The total production from ANWR would be between 0.4 and 1.2 percent of total world oil consumption in 2030. Consequently, ANWR oil production is not projected to have any significant impact on world oil prices. Furthermore, the Energy Information Administration does not feel ANWR will affect the global price of oil when past behaviors of the oil market are considered. `` The opening of ANWR is projected to have its largest oil price reduction impacts as follows : a reduction in low - sulfur, light crude oil prices of $0.41 per barrel ( 2006 dollars ) in 2026 for the low oil resource case, $0.75 per barrel in 2025 for the mean oil resource case, and $1.44 per barrel in 2027 for the high oil resource case, relative to the reference case. '' `` Assuming that world oil markets continue to work as they do today, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) could neutralize any potential price impact of ANWR oil production by reducing its oil exports by an equal amount. '' Support for drilling President George W. Bush 's administration supported drilling in the Arctic Refuge, saying that it could `` keep ( America ) 's economy growing by creating jobs and ensuring that businesses can expand ( a ) nd it will make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy '', and that `` scientists have developed innovative techniques to reach ANWR 's oil with virtually no impact on the land or local wildlife. '' Both of Alaska 's U.S. Senators, Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, have indicated they support ANWR drilling. A June 29, 2008 Pew Research Poll reported that 50 % of Americans favor drilling of oil and gas in ANWR while 43 % oppose ( compared to 42 % in favor and 50 % opposed in February of the same year ). A CNN opinion poll conducted on August 31, 2008 reported 59 % favor drilling for oil in ANWR, while 39 % oppose it. In the state of Alaska, residents receive annual dividends from a permanent fund funded partially by oil - lease revenues. In 2013 the dividend came to $900 per resident. The United States Department of Energy estimates that ANWR oil production between 2018 and 2030 would reduce the cumulative net expenditures on imported crude oil and liquid fuels by an estimated $135 to $327 billion ( 2006 dollars ), reducing the foreign trade deficit. Arctic Power cites a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report stating that 77 of the 567 wildlife refuges in 22 states had oil and gas activities. Louisiana had the most with 19 units, followed by Texas, which had 11 units. Furthermore, oil or gas was produced in 45 of the 567 units located in 15 states. The number of producing wells in each unit ranged from one to more than 300 in the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana. Opposition to drilling Former president Barack Obama has opposed drilling in the Arctic Refuge. In a League of Conservation Voters questionnaire, Obama said, `` I strongly reject drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because it would irreversibly damage a protected national wildlife refuge without creating sufficient oil supplies to meaningfully affect the global market price or have a discernible impact on U.S. energy security. '' Senator John McCain, while running for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, said, `` As far as ANWR is concerned, I do n't want to drill in the Grand Canyon, and I do n't want to drill in the Everglades. This is one of the most pristine and beautiful parts of the world. '' In 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy reported uncertainties about the USGS oil estimates for ANWR and the projected effects on oil price and supplies. `` There is little direct knowledge regarding the petroleum geology of the ANWR region... ANWR oil production is not projected to have a large impact on world oil prices... Additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR would be only a small portion of total world oil production, and would likely be offset in part by somewhat lower production outside the United States. '' The DOE reported that annual United States consumption of crude oil and petroleum products was 7.55 billion barrels ( 1.200 × 10 m ) in 2006. In comparison, the USGS estimated that the ANWR reserve contains 10.4 billion barrels ( 1.65 × 10 m ). Although, only 7.7 billion barrels ( 1.22 × 10 m ) were thought to be within the proposed drilling region. `` Environmentalists and most congressional Democrats have resisted drilling in the area because the required network of oil platforms, pipelines, roads and support facilities, not to mention the threat of foul spills, would play havoc on wildlife. The coastal plain, for example, is a calving home for some 129,000 caribou. '' The NRDC has said that drilling would not take place in a compact, 2,000 - acre ( 810 ha ) space as proponents say, but would create `` a spiderweb of industrial sprawl across the whole of the refuge 's 1.5 - million - acre ( 0.61 - million ha ) coastal plain, including drill sites, airports and roads, and gravel mines, spreading across more than 640,000 acres ( 260,000 ha ). The NRDC also said there is danger of oil spills in the region. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said that the 1002 area has a `` greater degree of ecological diversity than any other similar sized area of Alaska 's north slope ''. The FWS also states, `` Those who campaigned to establish the Arctic Refuge recognized its wild qualities and the significance of these spatial relationships. Here lies an unusually diverse assemblage of large animals and smaller, less - appreciated life forms, tied to their physical environments and to each other by natural, undisturbed ecological and evolutionary processes. '' Prior to 2008, 39 % of the residents of the United States and a majority of Canadians opposed drilling in the refuge. The Alaska Inter-Tribal Council ( AI - TC ), which represents 229 Native Alaskan tribes, officially opposes any development in ANWR. In March 2005 Luci Beach, the executive director of the steering committee for the Native Alaskan and Canadian Gwich'in tribe ( a member of the AI - TC ), during a trip to Washington D.C., while speaking for a unified group of 55 Alaskan and Canadian indigenous peoples, said that drilling in ANWR is `` a human rights issue and it 's a basic Aboriginal human rights issue ''. She went on to say, `` Sixty to 70 percent of our diet comes from the land and caribou is one of the primary animals that we depend on for sustenance. '' The Gwich'in tribe adamantly believes that drilling in ANWR would have serious negative effects on the calving grounds of the Porcupine Caribou herd that they partially rely on for food. A part of the Inupiat population of Kaktovik, and 5,000 to 7,000 Gwich'in peoples feel their lifestyle would be disrupted or destroyed by drilling. The Inupiat from Point Hope, Alaska recently passed resolutions recognizing that drilling in ANWR would allow resource exploitation in other wilderness areas. The Inupiat, Gwitch'in, and other tribes are calling for sustainable energy practices and policies. The Tanana Chiefs Conference ( representing 42 Alaska Native villages from 37 tribes ) opposes drilling, as do at least 90 Native American tribes. The National Congress of American Indians ( representing 250 tribes ), the Native American Rights Fund as well as some Canadian tribes also oppose drilling in the 1002 area. In May 2006 a resolution was passed in the village of Kaktovik calling Shell Oil Company `` a hostile and dangerous force '' that authorized the mayor to take legal and other actions necessary to `` defend the community ''. The resolution also calls on all North Slope communities to oppose Shell owned offshore leases unrelated to the ANWR controversy until the company becomes more respectful of the people. Mayor Sonsalla says Shell has failed to work with the villagers on how the company would protect bowhead whales, which are part of Native culture, subsistence life, and diet. Moderate Republican House of Representatives member Carlos Curbelo and eleven others sent a letter to the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, urging him to not include drilling in the December 2017 major tax rewrite, but the language remained in Senate passed bill. Rep. Curbelo still voted for the final bill that included drilling. See also National Petroleum Reserve -- Alaska Arctic policy of the United States Oil on Ice and Being Caribou, two documentary films about the Arctic Refuge drilling controversy. 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Question: how much additional oil would anwr provide to the us
Answer: between 5.7 and 16.0 billion barrels (2.54×109 m3) of technically recoverable crude oil and natural gas liquids