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To nicks the bridge. and the green advocates were thrilled. the 400 residents of a native village almost universally support the development. it would bring much-needed jobs and make them an oil hub. unemployment there right now is at 38%. it would keep oil flowing in the great alaska pipeline. the reserve has an estimated 900 million barrels of oil. coneco-phillips says it would be able to produce up to 18,000 barrels a day you talk about remote, it took us eight hours and four flights to get there from seattle, the nearest city about 200 miles away. alaska's loan congressman says drilling th...

Alaska. some people are arguing they are not approving the roads and bridges needed to support that drilling. jan springedan springer is live in seattle with more. >> reporter: it's important for people to know what we are talking about. the national petroleum reserve is a 23 million-acre piece in alaska. there is not a single well drilled there, partly because access is very difficult due to the river. it's a river that is frozen most of the year, coneco-phillips proposed to build a bridge over the river so it could easily get to the leases it owns in the reserve and more importantly get the ...