The area where they are talking about exploring for oil is nowhere near the calving grounds of the Porcupine Herd. Yes, the Herd calves in the Artic Costal Plain, But the ACP encompasses a HUGE area.
It's rather like not allowing me to burn leaves in my back yard ijn North Central Florida because Washington,D.C. is having a period of bad air quality.
Yeah, we're both on the East Coast but that's the only thing we have in common.
I worked with a woman who lived up on the North Slope for 12 years. Her husband worked for BP and they said that spills were rare and dealt with quickly when they happened. There were crews whose sole job was to look for possible leaks and deal with them before they became a problem.
Maybe this has changed. That was 5 years ago.

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