Footage of Offshore Oil Accident Highlights Risks of Deepwater Drilling

14 Offshore Drilling Pros and Cons

With the new push for offshore drilling in Alaska, we take the risk and D.C. takes the money. Anything beyond six miles off our coast is federal territory, and Alaska gets zero revenue from it. No royalty share. No reinvestment. Nothing. Meanwhile coastal communities carry the environmental and cultural risk - from subsistence disruption to spill response. And here’s the part nobody says out loud: Alaska has supported responsible development for decades because the benefits stayed in Alaska. NPR