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BP must configure the second $ 20 billion fund for oil spills "

Veteran marine biologist Professor Rick Steiner, said that Channel 4 News BP should establish another fund of $ 20 billion - to compensate for damage Gulf oil spill of the environment.

Environmentalists, deeply rooted in the fierce debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, are up on the arms, mainly because the negative impact of drilling sites to the environment and indigenous creatures live and move about this great extent of Alaska. Looking at the drill sites in the 1900s to the 1970s, it is easy to see the concerns.

Exploration drilling, and has taken many acres of their large heavy machinery and equipment production. For example, the oilfield of Prudhoe Bay, just a few miles west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, built in the 1970s consisted of 5,000 acres of gravel needed for road transport, drilling and production equipment. Over this region, with hindsight, was negligent and unnecessary. The improved performance over the decades that followed have enabled these Land use in the fall of 60%, allowing less intrusion into the rugged Alaska and in other regions.

New developments in drilling exercises over its direction and in contact with reservoirs often three miles from the drilling site surface. In recent decades could drill only reach at most a year and a half mile from the original drilling outside, require the construction of roads, more and more exercises to fully explore the designated area. This further allows oil companies to achieve a deeper under the surface of each year, so they should not be placed on this virgin soil, which is less disturbance of the tundra. Other developments have to build individual wells and drill pads much more frequently than in the past. In previous decades, drilling platforms and production wells required distance of 100 feet no closer or more to be separated.

Today, technological advances in drilling technology allowed new drilling sites to much more closely than ever before, often as close as necessary to ten meters between each drill site. The number of wells, 65 square acres in 1970, may now be necessary in a plot much smaller, now less than nine hectares.

A promising development is the road itself has been made. In the past, roads have been constructed gravel mound on the surface the frozen tundra. Today, technology has made possible a result, most of the roads needed to build for the study of ice place. While these roads melt, after exploration is complete, simply immerse in the landscape shade of a trace of their existence. Triple Diamond Energy Corp. and other oil companies to provide daily on new and exciting opportunities to develop the possible need oil for the U.S. sample in the discharge of their duty of care to protect the environment intact for his joy in the coming Years.

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