Drilling
...s caribou the most. The constructing of Drilling sites will restrict the caribou’s roaming range, which is not healthy for an animal like the caribou. This is elaborated in the article by Ebersole: “If oil companies develop ANWR’s costal plain, there would be little room for caribou to roam.”(Ebersole 5) Drilling may also scare caribou away resulting in them moving to the foothills where many infectious mosquitoes may live, causing them to contract diseases and lowering their overall population: “A baby Caribou may loose up to a pint of blood per day from mosquitoes”(Ebersole 5). All this shows that oil drilling can have negative side effects that hurt all the animals around the drilling site. Oil drilling also affects inhabitants‘ lives in a negative way. Most wildlife will move away from the main territories. This will lead to most of the fish leaving and going away. Eskimos have had a certain way of life that they life. If oil drilling is started, then their original way of life will be destroyed and their whole culture will be lost and the rarity of their culture and how they live will also be lost. “There goes our way of life. The wildlife will go away. The fish will go away. We were wrong.” (3) This quote points out that because of drilling all the wildlife that some people and animals depend on food will move away and the people and animals will have lost thei...