Alaska's Arctic refuge to oil drilling-late 2

Oil companies may be on the verge of tapping into Alaskan refuge's huge reserves, under Donald Trump. Trump's nomination of General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has uplifted the hopes of many energy industry insiders and Alaskan lawmakers who have seen attempts to drill into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but never succeeded. Unfortunately their are two sides to this situation. Alaska's Republican lawmakers see the estimated 7.7 billion barrels of oil and know that they will receive money, but the Environmental Groups and the Indigenous Gwich'in people consider their planes sacred land and oil drilling would ruin the habitat around; gray wolves, polar bears, porcupine caribou, and more than 200 species of birds. The refuge was created in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter, he put more than 100 million federal acres in Alaska under conservation protection. The oil drilling issue has stood for the past 36 years figuring out what is the right thing to do.