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emacia emaciated nanook are wandering into tune. whale scraps are the next best thing. but skinny, hungry polar bears are not the only warning sign up here, that s the airport. and they are moving it away from the coast due in part to sea level rise. they re seeing more and more freakish rainstorms in the winter and blizzards in the summer, but, at the same time, all the modern creature comforts in the town from the clinic to the school were paid for with oil money. and with the promise of fresh millions for their native corporation, most of the folks here are eager to tap into the one product that is changing their land forever. what do we use to hunt caribou? gas and oil. we have the right to develop our land. reporter: a scoping meeting with federal officials bears just how emotionally divisive

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and donald trump. are you a fan of president trump? yeah, he does good things. he does bad things. i m grateful that he got that bill passed. reporter: december s tax cut bill also opened the arctic refuge to drilling and the government is now moving fast to lease 8,000 acres on this coastal plain. this is where the last caribou give birth, a place of life and beauty made all the more fragile by a staggering rise in arctic temperatures. do you believe in climate change? you think it exists? there is a cooling and there is a heating. the icecaps were going to melt. they were going to be gone by now, but now they re setting records. reporter: that s the exact opposite of the truth. and this time lapse of the nasa satellite data shows the relentless burning of fossil fuels is melting the arctic at a record pace, including the oldest, thickest ice seen here in white. which is why more and more

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known as a wildlife guy who carries a revolver just in case the skinny polar bear gets grouchy. this guy is more powerful than dirty harry. reporter: is that right? he points out that the arctic slope regional corporation is worth billions thanks to royalties from other drilling sites. but the wealth does not trickle down. and his neighbors here believe that tapping the refuge will finally bring the wealth and respect they deserve. there are a lot of people in chicago or dallas or iowa who believe this is their land, too. it is a national wildlife refuge, like a national park. yeah. reporter: and they want to keep it pure. but they will never set foot here. i don t think it is right for them to be able to tell us what we can and cannot do with our own land. you know, we re the best steward of our land. reporter: that s the kind of local support pro-drilling lawmakers like lisa murkowski love to highlight. the senator is a driving force

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the issue has become. think about what is going to happen to this land if there s an oil spill and the response that s going to come along with it. thank you for that message. may i ask where you are from? reporter: that loaded question and attention in the room shows how much resentment there is for outsiders who want to protect the ref yunugerefuge. and to those along the coast, the environmental arrivals include the tribe up in the mountains fiercely opposed to drilling. so they partner with the oil companies. we have told them our position. our culture, our spirituality, our traditional way of life is based on the caribou. and we are not willing to give it up. i would say they have the moral hybrid on there trying to preserve the culture and the people who are pro-oilers are doing it for money. zb reporter: robert thompson is

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