OIL INDUSTRY FACTS 

Multinational oil companies are some of the largest, most profitable, and dirtiest companies on the planet. While technology and environmental regulations have improved their performance, spills still regularly occur during oil operations. For example, there over 400 spills every year of crude oil and other toxic substances at the oil field in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, just 30 miles west of the Arctic Refuge. 

Drilling the refuge would require a large number of well pads, connected by pipelines, roads, airports, housing facilities, processing plants, and other infrastructure with effects that would radiate across the entire coastal plain.

Other industrial operations, such as seismic exploration, water withdrawals, gravel mines, noise from operations, air pollution, and exploratory drilling would have effects over a much larger area.

None of this infrastructure is accounted for in drilling proponents' dishonest to "limit" develop 2,000 acres of the refuge. Indeed, the effects of energy development would be felt across the entire 1.2 million coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge.