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Drill or not to Drill
Bryant Gripp
ETH/316
December 11, 2014
George Price
Drill or not to Drill
The responsibility of all the participants is to ensure the environment remains unmarked by industrial intrusion. Taking into account the disturbance of such a fragile ecosystem and the availability of vast amounts of natural resources. The preservation of the animals habitat needs to have the same value as the extraction of natural resources. Both sides are looking to do the right thing so they must both be willing to listen to each other to formulate a plan. The program needs to take the landscape and wildlife into account, as well as the necessities of the natural gas industry. The need to eliminate the human footprint is paramount. The stakeholder’s moral failings come only thinking of the revenue that mining would bring and not the effect on the environment. The beauty of the Green Valley will change with industrial growth. The involvement of politics may play a role since the land is public and owned by the government. Bureau of land Management is in charge of issuing permits for drilling, and some people think that they are catering to particular political groups. Stakeholders are not taking into account that industrial and urban sprawl are unavoidable and that land and environments are becoming extinct. Thousands of animals use this valley as a migration route. By allowing the development of more drilling sites, the migration route will become compromised. Already there are roads and fences that hinder the animals. “ Large mammal migrations are in decline globally, despite the popularity of innovative, large-scale management tools. From an ecological perspective, the problem may appear obvious—the ever increasing number of physical barriers to wildlife movement (e.g., habitat fragmentation, increasing human population, roads, industrial development) leading to the continued disruption and loss of wildlife movements.” (CHERNEY, 2011) Some of
Bryant Gripp
ETH/316
December 11, 2014
George Price
Drill or not to Drill
The responsibility of all the participants is to ensure the environment remains unmarked by industrial intrusion. Taking into account the disturbance of such a fragile ecosystem and the availability of vast amounts of natural resources. The preservation of the animals habitat needs to have the same value as the extraction of natural resources. Both sides are looking to do the right thing so they must both be willing to listen to each other to formulate a plan. The program needs to take the landscape and wildlife into account, as well as the necessities of the natural gas industry. The need to eliminate the human footprint is paramount. The stakeholder’s moral failings come only thinking of the revenue that mining would bring and not the effect on the environment. The beauty of the Green Valley will change with industrial growth. The involvement of politics may play a role since the land is public and owned by the government. Bureau of land Management is in charge of issuing permits for drilling, and some people think that they are catering to particular political groups. Stakeholders are not taking into account that industrial and urban sprawl are unavoidable and that land and environments are becoming extinct. Thousands of animals use this valley as a migration route. By allowing the development of more drilling sites, the migration route will become compromised. Already there are roads and fences that hinder the animals. “ Large mammal migrations are in decline globally, despite the popularity of innovative, large-scale management tools. From an ecological perspective, the problem may appear obvious—the ever increasing number of physical barriers to wildlife movement (e.g., habitat fragmentation, increasing human population, roads, industrial development) leading to the continued disruption and loss of wildlife movements.” (CHERNEY, 2011) Some of
References: CHERNEY, D. (2011). SECURING THE FREE MOVEMENT OF WILDLIFE: LESSONS FROM THE AMERICAN WEST’S LONGEST LAND MAMMAL MIGRATION . Retrieved from http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/2011.17.pdf Ejim, E. (2003-14). What Is the Connection Between Critical Thinking and Ethics?. Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-connection-between-critical-thinking-and-ethics.htm