Caught with their britches down.

• Author: McCorkle, Vern C.
• Position: From the Publisher - Brief Article

"Truth will out," and out it is, at last! Those rascal environmentalists have been fibbing to us all along about massive trauma to the Porcupine caribou herd resulting from oil exploration in ANWR.

According to published reports, an original U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) study declared the herd "may be" endangered by ANWR activity.

As it turns out (but not mentioned) the original report also found that upset from drilling could be minimal if conducted in a sensitive manner in a limited area, thus potentially impacting only a small number of the ever-growing 125,000-head herd. The USGS study focused on five "fictional development scenarios" that did not reflect areas for possible drilling. Never matter such details. When there's money to be raised and the enviros have the press in their pockets,-on with the ruse!

But wait. Comes now a second report that studied just two potential drilling sites, not the fictitious five fanfared in the original study. The original author was asked to apply his logic to two sites most likely to be developed and found that, in truth, only one percent of the Porcupine herd might...