"Drill, Baby, Drill" comes to Discovery?

http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/palin_discovery2/


The media conglomerate Discovery Communications used to be known for their earth-friendly offerings. But they’ve just paid millions to Sarah Palin to host a “nature” show, despite her decidedly anti-environmental stance: She vocally advocates for habitat-destroying oil drilling, she denies global warming is a human-caused threat, and she spearheaded a brutal wolf-slaughter program as governor of Alaska.

It’s one thing if Fox News gives Sarah Palin a platform. But when Discovery Communications – home to the Discovery Channel, the "Planet Earth" series, the Science Channel, Animal Planet, and TreeHugger.com – gives a show to Sarah Palin, it undercuts everything the Discovery brand has come to represent.

Anti-environmentalism has no place in the Discovery Communications lineup. Demand that the company cancel "Sarah Palin's Alaska" before it airs.

The former partial-term Alaska governor is reportedly getting paid $1.2 million per episode to host a television series called "Sarah Palin's Alaska," to be broadcast on TLC, one of Discovery Communications' channels. And if Palin runs for president in 2012, a show that provides her the opportunity to greenwash her environmental record on a mainstream, eco-friendly channel is downright dangerous.

Here’s what Sarah Palin’s real Alaska is:

She accelerated Alaska's cruel aerial wolf-hunting program while in office, introducing a $150 bounty for each slaughtered wolf's forelimb.

She made a personal appeal to Alaska voters to oppose a ballot measure that would have stopped ....rest at link

I was wondering what this means. As far as I can tell, drilling an oil or gas well can be habitat destroying, or not. But so is building a road, navigating an oil tanker carrying 500 thousand barrels of oil close to the coast, dumping garbage in the ocean, and so on. Why do you focus so much on what is in general a fairly benign endeavor?

Go to google earth and look up Prudhoe Bay Alaska.

did you notice all those hotels? Or go to google earth and look up the University of California at Berkeley Campus - it used to be pristine before they built on it. All human activity causes changes in the environment. Prudhoe Bay isn't worse or better. Furthermore, when we consider offshore drilling, then of course the impact is minimal. It's a lot less harmful than oil tanker traffic.

22,000 acres of tundra wetlands, floodplains, and other habitats have been directly lost due to the oil fields and Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. But the impacts to wildlife and their tundra habitats extend well beyond the sites of constructed facilities. A study of major landscape impacts due to the Prudhoe Bay oil fields in Science found that secondary effects such as hydrological changes to wetlands lagged behind construction and the total area eventually disturbed greatly exceeded direct impacts. "The extent of disturbance greatly exceeds the physical "footprint" of an oil-field complex," according to caribou biologists Nellemann and Cameron (1998). Many studies recorded decreased caribou densities within 4-km of pipelines and roads and regional changes in calving distribution for the Central Arctic Herd at Prudhoe Bay. Prudhoe Bay air emissions have been detected nearly 200 miles away in Barrow, Alaska.

http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/arcticconnections.htm

You are correct, we should lessen our footprint no matter if it is Miami or berkeley.

run around and try to cut down everything they possibly can?

That's really interesting too.

in our country, and Sarah Palin works on that side of the fence. Killing all the wolves until they're extinct? Killing them from a helicopter, where they can't possibly escape? We've already seen the fruit of Palin's labor, with global warming, with tremendous loss of polar ice and the plight of the polar bear, with total disregard of ALL animals in Alaska, and enough environmental rape to shock at the deepest level.

Letting this woman be the "face" of Alaska? She QUIT her responsibility as governor (though for some of that is good news!) without finishing her term in office! She's a greedy, half-literate sleazebag who has gone beyond the pale and sold out any principles she might have once had and sold the state of Alaska to the highest bidder.

If you look at the entire ANWR history, you will see all the shit that was proposed there, and why a majority of us fought tooth and nail to keep drilling from happening. Stripping the land, leaving it unprotected, and trying to coax the last reserves from the earth is sleazy, just like Sarah Palin.