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Make Waves for Oceans - Stop Off-Shore Oil Drilling

Target: United States House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Ocean Champions

For over two decades, a federal moratorium on new offshore oil and gas drilling has protected the beauty and ecology of our coasts. Now a group of politicians in Washington, led by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Ca), is attacking this moratorium.

Pombo, with support from oil conglomerations, has introduced legislation that would eliminate the federal moratorium on off-shore drilling, and open our coasts to resource exploitation. This bill would undo decades of protection for our sensitive ocean and coastal resources, and places thousands of miles of coastline at risk of catastrophic oil spills.

Offshore drilling is not a solution to America's energy problems, and will harm coastal economies more than it will help them.

Join Ocean Champions in fighting for permanent protection for our oceans - tell Congress you opposing off-shore drilling!

deadline: 3-17-2007
goal: 15,000

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This petition is now closed. On May 18th, the House rejected lifting the moratorium on drilling for natural gas off our coasts. Thank you to the more than 2,800 people that signed this petition, and helped keep our coastlines free from drilling. Thank you for your interest. Please click here for more petitions.

Protecting our oceans and coasts is extremely important to me, and I oppose any effort to lift the current moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling.

Lifting the current federal moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling would undo decades of protection, and puts thousands of miles of coastline at risk of catastrophic oil spills.

Offshore drilling is not a solution to America's energy problems, and will harm coastal economies more than it will help them.

Sincerely,
/Your Name/
/Your Address/

We signed the “Make Waves for Oceans - Stop Off-Shore Oil Drilling” petition!

# 100:

5:17 pm PST, Mar 20, Kamala Meadows, California

# 99:

5:17 pm PST, Mar 20, Cecilia Grote, California
We must reduce our need for oil. Offshore drilling will only prolong the inevitable by a short amount of time, and cause too much damage to the environment. It's time to create clean energy.

# 98:

5:16 pm PST, Mar 20, Stacey Nagy, Texas

# 97:

5:16 pm PST, Mar 20, Jennie Jones, Utah

# 96:

5:16 pm PST, Mar 20, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania

# 95:

5:16 pm PST, Mar 20, Ascension Poler, Wisconsin

# 94:

5:15 pm PST, Mar 20, Belinda Blackwell, North Carolina

# 93:

5:15 pm PST, Mar 20, Hardenia R. Griffin, Oklahoma

# 92:

5:14 pm PST, Mar 20, Nicole K. Corrado, Indiana
While I realize our need for oil, we must not destroy our oceans to get it. Please continue to explore alternative energy sources and do not drill in our oceans.

# 91:

5:14 pm PST, Mar 20, Greg Sanchez, Illinois

# 90:

5:14 pm PST, Mar 20, Paul Schutt, Illinois
The only real answer is conservation, not the continued wasting of precious resources.

# 89:

5:13 pm PST, Mar 20, Claire Kugelman-Kropp, California
I thought we were supposed to be breaking away from our dependance on oil. It is time to look for other more environmentlly safe energy sources.

# 88:

5:13 pm PST, Mar 20, Lynda Warren, California
Please help to stop offshore drilling!!!

# 87:

5:13 pm PST, Mar 20, Connie Hillard, Arizona

# 86:

5:11 pm PST, Mar 20, Leno Sislin, California

# 85:

5:10 pm PST, Mar 20, Anne Daletski, Washington

# 84:

5:10 pm PST, Mar 20, Sue Goodrich, California

# 83:

5:09 pm PST, Mar 20, Shirley Ward, Florida

# 82:

5:09 pm PST, Mar 20, Bethany DeVine, Florida

# 81:

5:09 pm PST, Mar 20, Angela West, California

# 80:

5:09 pm PST, Mar 20, Helen Solarz, Pennsylvania

# 79:

5:08 pm PST, Mar 20, Randi Perkins, California

# 78:

5:08 pm PST, Mar 20, Alice Polesky, California

# 77:

5:07 pm PST, Mar 20, Lora Marie Williams, Indiana
We must protect our oceans!

# 76:

5:07 pm PST, Mar 20, William Ellsworth-DAV, Texas

# 75:

5:07 pm PST, Mar 20, Susan Nelson, Washington

# 74:

5:07 pm PST, Mar 20, Chuck Wieland, California
If we are addicted to oil, then why drill for more? There are lots of solutions that are cheaper.

# 73:

5:07 pm PST, Mar 20, Name not displayed, Ohio

# 72:

5:04 pm PST, Mar 20, Mary Jane Taxter, New York

# 71:

5:04 pm PST, Mar 20, Doris Murphy, South Carolina
What will this do to all the creatures in the ocean?They will all disappear.Do we really want that?

# 70:

5:03 pm PST, Mar 20, Jordan V, Virginia

# 69:

5:03 pm PST, Mar 20, Charlotte Stahl, Oregon
Put the time and money into cleaner, renewable alternative fuels, rather than into more drilling and the pollution, devastation and loss of habitat it causes.

# 68:

5:03 pm PST, Mar 20, Jason Aide, Minnesota

# 67:

5:03 pm PST, Mar 20, Elaine Erickson, California

# 66:

5:03 pm PST, Mar 20, Eileen Massey, California

# 65:

5:03 pm PST, Mar 20, Alma Nava, Minnesota

# 64:

5:02 pm PST, Mar 20, Arya Hariharan, Washington D.C.

# 63:

5:02 pm PST, Mar 20, Rayline Dean, California
I dont want to see that living animals & plants died due to who knows, spilling oil in the ocean. No off-shore drilling!

# 62:

5:02 pm PST, Mar 20, Barbara LHeureux, Wisconsin

# 61:

5:01 pm PST, Mar 20, Anthony DeMarco, New Jersey

# 60:

5:01 pm PST, Mar 20, MARK SALAMON, Massachusetts

# 59:

5:01 pm PST, Mar 20, Kim Touzinsky, Missouri
Please do not allow off-shore drilling. Our oceans must be protected, conserved and kept clean. Please do your part by opposing off-shore drilling.

# 58:

5:00 pm PST, Mar 20, Margaret L Richards, Florida
Let's work on alternative energy instead of destroying the entire planet to get a little more oil.

# 57:

5:00 pm PST, Mar 20, Frank Lopez, Arizona
NO to drilling in our oceans so close to our shores

# 56:

5:00 pm PST, Mar 20, Angela Morrow, Maine

# 55:

4:59 pm PST, Mar 20, Elana Katz, Massachusetts

# 54:

4:59 pm PST, Mar 20, Sean Slattery, Illinois

# 53:

4:59 pm PST, Mar 20, Teresa Johnson, California
It's time to stop the madness. Let's focus on alternate sources of fuel. They exist, but we are addicted to using oil. Let's beat this addiction.

# 52:

4:59 pm PST, Mar 20, Marjorie L. Barton, Nevada

# 51:

4:59 pm PST, Mar 20, Name not displayed, Hong Kong

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