Only Nine Days Left to Save America’s Arctic Seas

[Guest guest]

Pacific Environment

Only Nine Days Left to Save America’s Arctic Seas

 

 

 

 

 

The American Arctic is currently under assault by the Bush Administration and Big Oil’s insatiable appetite for oil. Home to half of the nation’s fisheries, endangered whales, polar bears, walrus and endangered seabirds, our Arctic seas are now being targeted for unprecedented oil drilling and exploration. The Bush Administration and companies such as Shell Oil are planning to open the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas to oil exploration and drilling in their shortsighted “drill everywhere” proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program for 2007- 2012.

Oil exploration, drilling and heavy transportation would disproportionately impact subsistence communities, irreparably devastate the world’s largest salmon run, destroy critical whale habitats, and perpetuate the stresses already created by global warming on the Arctic. Furthermore, oil companies have failed to demonstrate the ability to cleanup oil spills in the icy Arctic climate.

We only have nine days left to stop this reckless development and protect the Arctic for future generations. But the Bush Administration doesn’t want to hear what you have to say about his plans for the American Arctic. Despite the magnitude of this decision, email comments are not being accepted! But we will not be silenced and neither should you!

Sign on to this letter and we will hand deliver it to the Mineral Managenment Services!

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/pacificenvironment/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=5915

 

[Americans only]