text: ANWR is much larger than Area 1002. The birthing areas are not all of the area. Nobody is proposing drilling in a valley, this is the coastal plain. Even directional driling has a distance limit.
  
  This is not a series of comments about whether or not we need the oil, should burn it or turn it into plastic, or any other side issue. The LTE made a series of unsubstantialted claims about the impact on the Gwich'in.