Jay Inslee: “I have been to Yellowstone, Glacier, and Mt. Rainier National Parks. And after being on the banks of the Aichilik River…”

“I have been to Yellowstone, Glacier, and Mt. Rainier National Parks. And after being on the banks of the Aichilik River, right next to where they want to put this oil production facility, I can warrant there is no more beautiful biologically dynamic place, full of wonderful critters, grizzly, caribou, and ptarmigan, anywhere in America. I think Americans think about the Arctic a little bit like they think about the Mona Lisa. It is beautiful, they will probably never get to see it in person, but they would not want to put a mustache on it, albeit just a small mustache. Americans do not believe a mustache belongs on the Mona Lisa, and an oil production facility does not belong in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge.”