This week’s question concerns oil drilling in the Arctic region. Twenty years ago, Exxon’s supertanker Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound on Alaska’s southern coast, spilling some 11 million gallons of crude oil onto the shorelines, which caused extensive environmental damage and a massive loss of fish and wildlife. Traces of the spill remain along the Alaskan coast. Some policy makers and environmental groups are calling for creating ‘no-go zones’ in the Arctic banning oil and gas drilling, because the region remains vulnerable to additional oil spills. What do you think? Should stringent oil and gas drilling regulations be implemented in the Arctic? Yes or no?
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