Stop Trump’s Western Arctic giveaway

Fossil fuel companies petitioned the Interior Department to cede tens of million more acres of the pristine Western Arctic in the interests of drilling — and in less than three days, the Trump administration agreed. We need your voice NOW: Submit a public comment opposing the Trump administration’s devastating plan to advance Western Arctic drilling by the July 6 deadline.

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Send a public comment opposing the Trump administration’s plan to give away the Western Arctic to oil and gas companies. Deadline: July 6.

Caribou of the Western Arctic herd migrate through the Utukok Uplands, National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, Arctic, Alaska.

Patrick J. Endres/AlaskaPhotoGraphics.com

If this hasty, short-sighted plan is finalized, fossil fuel companies will not be subject to any real oversight in the Western Arctic. No standard permitting process. No clean up standards.

The Trump administration is seeking public comments about this disastrous proposal until July 6.

Grizzly and polar bears, caribou, rare birds, and other wildlife rely on Western Arctic lands and waters for survival. Indigenous communities depend on the region’s natural resources to protect their livelihoods and cultural traditions. And more oil drilling in the Arctic will only 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 need your voice NOW: Submit a public comment opposing the Trump administration’s devastating plan to advance Western Arctic drilling.

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Subject Don’t let fossil fuel companies have free rein of the Western Arctic

Dear Interior Secretary Burgum:

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I oppose your disastrous proposal that accepts the request from fossil fuel companies to allow tens of million more acres of the Western Arctic to be essentially handed over to the oil and gas industry for drilling, all without fully considering harms to the environment.

It doesn’t make economic sense to drill in the region given financial risk and increasing costs for companies to operate in this fragile, remote ecosystem. Earlier this year, a massive oil rig — contracted by ConocoPhillips — collapsed in the Western Arctic’s North Slope, spilling thousands of gallons of diesel and other fluids.

Letting the oil and gas industry do as they wish will only harm grizzly and polar bears, caribou, rare birds, and other wildlife that rely on Western Arctic lands and waters for survival. Indigenous communities depend on the region’s natural resources to protect their livelihoods and cultural traditions.

And this region is warming more than four times faster than the rest of the world — stopping drilling here is a key step to avert climate catastrophe.

Please do not allow the fossil fuel industry to lease lands for drilling without any real oversight.

Thank you.

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