>> no. >> austin ahmasuk hopes those benefits don't come at the cost of his family's way of life. >> i want to live here, i want my children to live here and i want them to enjoy a clean environment. i want them to enjoy a kind of lifestyle that i have always lived. >> it really is kind of the greatest irony, right. the sea ice is melting because of the carbon emissions that are in the atmosphere right now, and that's allowing us to say, hey maybe it would be a good idea to go up and drill for more fossil fuels to cause more catastrophic climate change. >> now we heard it said time and time again that what works in the lower forty eight does not work up there in alaska, in the arctic - and i saw first hand things were breaking, the conditions were tough to even get their operations done. >> and oil companies across the globe are either stopping down production or actually pulling out of the arctic altogether, because the conditions are just so severe. >> and you know the energy market is also a big unknown here, so that's a part of the reason why they're pulling out too. >> well guys

. >> austin ahmasuk is an inupiaq native who was born and raised in nome alaska. >> my major concern with any oil development in that neck of the woods is response readiness. what's going to happen if some disaster occurs. are we ready? and, frankly, from from my own experience in this region, i know that we're not totally ready for a gigantic disaster, that's what scares me. >> but alaskans also depend on oil to keep their state running. about 90% of its budget is supplied by oil revenues. slumping oil prices have caused those revenues to drop. >> there's been drilling done in the arctic for years. successfully. >> denise michels has been mayor of nome alaska for 12 years. >> if an oil spill happens, by law the companies that are doing the drilling, are supposed to have assets in place to control that. but the reality is, our weather is unpredictable, and so it's any marine activity happening in the arctic that we're concerned about. >> i think living in alaska you become quite aware of the realities of oil. it brings a tremendous number of benefits. there are ways of life that aren