America's last wilderness is about to go to the highest bidder for oil drilling | Kim Heacox
by Kim Heacox from Environment | The Guardian on (#5BNTY)
Ten thousand years of undisturbed nature will soon be open to the highest bidder, starting at $25 an acre
Language is everything.
Those who argue for oil drilling in the Arctic national wildlife refuge, a place of stunning wild beauty in far north-east Alaska, seldom call it what it is - a refuge.
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