Bob Beauprez: “Now it is estimated that, if we were able to construct the natural gas pipeline that has been proposed from ANWR down to…”

“Now it is estimated that, if we were able to construct the natural gas pipeline that has been proposed from ANWR down to the lower 48 States, not only would we dramatically increase our availability of natural gas to the lower 48 but we would create more than 400,000, 400,000 direct and indirect jobs from that one pipeline alone. Now let us talk about ANWR just briefly. This is a map that points out the entire State of Alaska on the far side of the chart. For scale, you see in gold the area known as ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve; and you see that it is roughly the size of the State of South Carolina. The area we are talking about, and this is the entire Arctic Natural Wildlife Reserve, ANWR, the area we are talking about is not the entire reserve but just the coastal plane. In fact, in the coastal plane, only the little area in red. It may or may not be that location, but that is the 2,000 acres within the bill that is limited for production. Just that one spot. I visited this site last August. I wanted to see it for myself.”