Submit your public comment telling the Trump administration’s Department of Interior that the Western Arctic is not for sale by November 21.
Bureau of Land Management
The Trump administration is moving to open up over 18 million acres of Western Arctic wildlands to climate-busting drilling. Make no mistake: This plan is a threat to all of America’s Arctic.
The administration has already fast-tracked a plan to offer up part of the Arctic Refuge to oil and gas corporations, expedited approval and permits for the Ambler Mining Road, and will soon launch a disastrous offshore drilling plan that includes selling out the Arctic’s wildlife-filled Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.
But before the administration can take another dangerous step, they must collect public comments about what areas of virtually untouched Western Arctic land should be leased for oil and gas drilling — which we know is zero.
Grizzly and polar bears, caribou, rare birds, and other wildlife species rely on these Arctic lands for survival. And more oil drilling in the Arctic will lock us into more fossil fuel addiction in a region that is warming more than four times faster than the rest of the world. Stopping drilling here is a key step to avert climate catastrophe.
We only have until November 21 to create a massive public outcry opposing oil and gas drilling in the Western Arctic — submit your official comment NOW!