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Oil on Ice Peter Coyote narrates this educational, eye-opening, politically controversial, 57-minute, 2004 documentary that examines the pros and cons of the existing Alaskan pipeline and the potential repercussions on the already fragile ecosystem of drilling for possibly more than 3.2 billion barrels of fossil fuel in the stunningly beautiful, 1.5-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska by citing the effects on the annual migration of the Porcupine caribou herd and on the more than 180 species of birds, presents astonishing facts such as 85% of Alaska's general revenue comes from oil and gas royalties, and discusses the devastating economic, ecological, financial, and climatic aftermath of the Exxon-Valdez disaster in 1989 through interviews with University of California Energy Institute representative Severin Borenstein, Gwich'in writer Adeline Peter Raboff, artist Char Davies, conservationists Bill Weber and Celia Hunter, Rocky Mountain Institute representative Amory Lovins, former Alaskan Governor Tony Knowles, activists Dune Lankard and Sarah James, caribou biologist Ken Whitten, arctic ecologist David Klein, mayors (Jim Whitaker, George Ahmaogak, and Rosemary Ahtuangaruak), wilderness guide Robert Thompson, Gwich'in leader Norma Kassi, auto industry consultant David Shearer, Sierra Club representative Carl Pope, Cordova fisherman Robbie Maxwell, marine toxicologist Riki Ott, marine biologists Dr. Paul Kingston and Mandy Lindeberg, and residents Charlie Swaney, Leonard Lampe, and Rodney Ahtuangaruak.
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Oil on Ice on the Internet Movie Database
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