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Stop Big Oil's Push to Open the Arctic Refuge
Target: United States Senate
Sponsored by: Care2
Sponsored by: Care2
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the most important onshore denning habitats for America's threatened polar bears. Known as America's Serengeti, this stunning refuge teems with wildlife such as caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds.
But with oil prices skyrocketing, the Bush administration and Big Oil are pushing harder than ever to drill in this special place. Even the Bush administration's recent decision to protect polar bears under the Endangered Species Act includes provisions to allow drilling in polar bear habitat such as the Refuge.
Take action now -- tell your Senators to reject drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and support permanent protections for this special place.
But with oil prices skyrocketing, the Bush administration and Big Oil are pushing harder than ever to drill in this special place. Even the Bush administration's recent decision to protect polar bears under the Endangered Species Act includes provisions to allow drilling in polar bear habitat such as the Refuge.
Take action now -- tell your Senators to reject drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and support permanent protections for this special place.
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# 6,200:
3:42 pm PDT, Sep 15,
Agnes S, Illinois
# 6,199:
10:00 am PDT, Sep 15,
Barbara McLendon, Georgia
# 6,198:
6:14 am PDT, Sep 15,
Maria Karlic, Croatia
# 6,197:
8:04 pm PDT, Sep 14,
Jacquelyn Waara, Florida
# 6,196:
4:55 pm PDT, Sep 14,
Jasmin Meadows, Washington
# 6,195:
4:41 pm PDT, Sep 14,
Josephine Brew, Oregon
Opening this special place for drilling only postpones the real change to another source of energy we must have.
Opening this special place for drilling only postpones the real change to another source of energy we must have.
# 6,194:
3:49 pm PDT, Sep 14,
Lauren Herrera, Texas
this so wrong. mccain should not be president. he doesnt even know what he wants
this so wrong. mccain should not be president. he doesnt even know what he wants
# 6,193:
10:39 am PDT, Sep 14,
Judith Adams, Illinois
# 6,192:
9:59 am PDT, Sep 14,
Marcia Melamed, Illinois
# 6,191:
9:13 pm PDT, Sep 13,
Sam Mcmenemy, Texas
To Sarah Palin: I personally do not hold anything against you, but I strongly urge you to thing about the alternatives to drilling in the Arctic. Many lives will be lost and habitats and species will be destroyed. This generation's children may never see real polar bears! Think that over.
To Sarah Palin: I personally do not hold anything against you, but I strongly urge you to thing about the alternatives to drilling in the Arctic. Many lives will be lost and habitats and species will be destroyed. This generation's children may never see real polar bears! Think that over.
# 6,190:
6:34 pm PDT, Sep 13,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 6,189:
4:27 pm PDT, Sep 13,
Jason Maga, Hawaii
# 6,188:
1:20 pm PDT, Sep 13,
Verstraete Cecile, France
# 6,187:
12:15 pm PDT, Sep 13,
John Zold, Pennsylvania
# 6,186:
10:45 am PDT, Sep 13,
David Hansen, South Carolina
# 6,185:
10:10 am PDT, Sep 13,
Name not displayed, Alabama
This is the wilderness that is left in the US for our children and all the generations to come for enjoyment. These animals need protection so they will always be here as their home does not need to be destroyed. I have seen these beautiful animals and why someone would want to destroy their habitant I can not understand. Please protect them.
This is the wilderness that is left in the US for our children and all the generations to come for enjoyment. These animals need protection so they will always be here as their home does not need to be destroyed. I have seen these beautiful animals and why someone would want to destroy their habitant I can not understand. Please protect them.
# 6,184:
3:51 am PDT, Sep 13,
Sandi Martin, Philippines
# 6,183:
7:26 am PDT, Sep 12,
Brenda Prouty, New York
We need you to help protect the Artic Refuge. Please stand up look into your conscience to do the right thing.
We need you to help protect the Artic Refuge. Please stand up look into your conscience to do the right thing.
# 6,182:
6:41 am PDT, Sep 12,
Denis Sadler, Pennsylvania
# 6,181:
7:17 pm PDT, Sep 11,
Evelyn Peoples Jordan, Florida
# 6,180:
5:48 pm PDT, Sep 11,
Kathy Barbee, California
If you destroy the environment, you destroy the animals, you destroy US! Please, as our leaders, seek more environmentally friendly rememdies. God made the animals to co-exist with us, we do not have the right to abuse them or impinge upon their natural environment.
If you destroy the environment, you destroy the animals, you destroy US! Please, as our leaders, seek more environmentally friendly rememdies. God made the animals to co-exist with us, we do not have the right to abuse them or impinge upon their natural environment.
# 6,179:
5:39 pm PDT, Sep 11,
Juliet Oarrish, California
# 6,178:
5:10 pm PDT, Sep 11,
Candice Mutschler, Florida
Please help prevent the further destruction of our diminishing wildlife and wilderness areas.
Please help prevent the further destruction of our diminishing wildlife and wilderness areas.
# 6,177:
12:58 pm PDT, Sep 11,
Mathias Zahniser, Illinois
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the most amazing and fragile paces in the United States. It is amazing because of the vast amount of wildlife that find sactuary there. It is fragile because of the permafrost and other feature of the arctic ecosystem. Let's be like NOah and put the animals first who rely on us for protection and understanding. It is simply stupid as well as sinful to go into the fragile arctic sanctuary and drill, drill, drill, for enough oil to simply put off for a short time the energy crisis that we should be addressing in a comprehensive and environmentally safe way.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the most amazing and fragile paces in the United States. It is amazing because of the vast amount of wildlife that find sactuary there. It is fragile because of the permafrost and other feature of the arctic ecosystem. Let's be like NOah and put the animals first who rely on us for protection and understanding. It is simply stupid as well as sinful to go into the fragile arctic sanctuary and drill, drill, drill, for enough oil to simply put off for a short time the energy crisis that we should be addressing in a comprehensive and environmentally safe way.
# 6,176:
12:52 pm PDT, Sep 11,
Name not displayed, California
Drilling in the Arctic will by no means solve the oil crises. There is no need to endanger The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for such petty means. When will our country's selfishness end?
Drilling in the Arctic will by no means solve the oil crises. There is no need to endanger The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for such petty means. When will our country's selfishness end?
# 6,175:
10:29 am PDT, Sep 11,
Naren ., United Kingdom
# 6,174:
8:00 am PDT, Sep 11,
Flora Tang, Massachusetts
# 6,173:
7:54 am PDT, Sep 11,
Barbara DeMerritt, Tennessee
Please act to protect our wildlife! The animals were here long before we humans were and our treatment of them is despicable. Please do not let this habitat be destroyed!!
Please act to protect our wildlife! The animals were here long before we humans were and our treatment of them is despicable. Please do not let this habitat be destroyed!!
# 6,172:
7:39 am PDT, Sep 11,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 6,171:
7:15 am PDT, Sep 11,
Tammy F, Alabama
I love wildlife and feel that it is not fair to harm their environment, God put them there for a reason.
I love wildlife and feel that it is not fair to harm their environment, God put them there for a reason.
# 6,170:
6:57 am PDT, Sep 11,
Mike Zapczynski, Pennsylvania
# 6,169:
6:25 am PDT, Sep 11,
Eileen Betancourt, Florida
# 6,168:
6:13 am PDT, Sep 11,
Name not displayed, Connecticut
We must not drill, we have to implore our car companies to improve mileage in new cars asap. We have to curb usage, not give us more oil.
We must not drill, we have to implore our car companies to improve mileage in new cars asap. We have to curb usage, not give us more oil.
# 6,167:
5:54 am PDT, Sep 11,
Julie Sears, Michigan
# 6,166:
4:24 am PDT, Sep 11,
Denise Pilewski, New York
# 6,165:
4:02 am PDT, Sep 11,
Michãel Palmer, Montana
# 6,164:
7:24 pm PDT, Sep 10,
Kimberly Escobar, Florida
# 6,163:
5:36 pm PDT, Sep 10,
LIA GRIFFIN, California
DON'T WE STICK OUR NOSES IN ENOUGH PLACES ON THIS EARTH WHERE IT SHOULDN'T BE? CANT WE LEAVE ONE PLACE ALONE THAT IS STILL RELATIVELY PRESTINE? WE SHULDN'T BE SO GREEDY AND OPPORTUNISTIC. WE SHOULDN'T RAPE EVERY BIT OF TERRITORY JUST BECAUSE WE THINK WE CAN MAKE A BUCK. iF IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH THEN YES BUT JUST FOR GREED NO!!!!!!!
DON'T WE STICK OUR NOSES IN ENOUGH PLACES ON THIS EARTH WHERE IT SHOULDN'T BE? CANT WE LEAVE ONE PLACE ALONE THAT IS STILL RELATIVELY PRESTINE? WE SHULDN'T BE SO GREEDY AND OPPORTUNISTIC. WE SHOULDN'T RAPE EVERY BIT OF TERRITORY JUST BECAUSE WE THINK WE CAN MAKE A BUCK. iF IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH THEN YES BUT JUST FOR GREED NO!!!!!!!
# 6,162:
4:53 pm PDT, Sep 10,
Devon Foster, California
# 6,161:
3:44 pm PDT, Sep 10,
Name not displayed, Connecticut
# 6,160:
3:10 pm PDT, Sep 10,
Barrie Valencia, California
# 6,159:
1:25 pm PDT, Sep 10,
Julie Fink, Colorado
# 6,158:
12:59 pm PDT, Sep 10,
Robert Schreibman, Illinois
preserve, not destroy
preserve, not destroy
# 6,157:
12:43 pm PDT, Sep 10,
Sherry Rosas, Florida
If you have not seen the fast melting polar caps and have not learned what this means to the world, then may I sugest you further research what the impact of drilling really would mean to us all.
If you have not seen the fast melting polar caps and have not learned what this means to the world, then may I sugest you further research what the impact of drilling really would mean to us all.
# 6,156:
12:37 pm PDT, Sep 10,
Sean Cassels, New York
# 6,155:
11:56 am PDT, Sep 10,
Curby Minott, Maryland
Dear Senators, I am writing today to strongly urge you support S.2316 to permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. S.2316, sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman, would permanently protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- the Refuge's biological heart -- as a wilderness area with permanent protections. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is currently protected from harmful new drilling operations. But year after year, big oil companies and their allies relentlessly lobby for new drilling in this special place. This year is no exception, and rising oil prices have brought renewed calls to open up this special place. President Bush has even included revenues from Arctic Refuge drilling in his latest budget. view more The Arctic Refuge is not only home to caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds, it is also one of the most important onshore denning habitats for America's remaining polar bears. These magnificent animals are struggling for survival with scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey warning that America's polar bears could be extinct by 2050. The Fish & Wildlife Service just listed the polar bear as "threatened" on the Endangered Species List - yet this listing included qualifications to allow drilling in polar bear habitat. Drilling and the transportation and infrastructure needed to support it could wreak havoc on polar bears and the habitat they need to survive. There are around 400 crude oil and toxic spills every year at the Prudhoe oil field, just 30 miles west of the Arctic Refuge. If drilling -- and the development that comes with it -- is permitted in this important habitat, polar bears may abandon their dens, leaving cubs to die. I strongly urge you to support S.2316. Only a "wilderness" designation will stop the relentless efforts to drill in this special place and focus on real energy solutions like energy efficiency and the development of clean, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. view less Sincerely,
Dear Senators, I am writing today to strongly urge you support S.2316 to permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. S.2316, sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman, would permanently protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- the Refuge's biological heart -- as a wilderness area with permanent protections. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is currently protected from harmful new drilling operations. But year after year, big oil companies and their allies relentlessly lobby for new drilling in this special place. This year is no exception, and rising oil prices have brought renewed calls to open up this special place. President Bush has even included revenues from Arctic Refuge drilling in his latest budget. view more The Arctic Refuge is not only home to caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds, it is also one of the most important onshore denning habitats for America's remaining polar bears. These magnificent animals are struggling for survival with scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey warning that America's polar bears could be extinct by 2050. The Fish & Wildlife Service just listed the polar bear as "threatened" on the Endangered Species List - yet this listing included qualifications to allow drilling in polar bear habitat. Drilling and the transportation and infrastructure needed to support it could wreak havoc on polar bears and the habitat they need to survive. There are around 400 crude oil and toxic spills every year at the Prudhoe oil field, just 30 miles west of the Arctic Refuge. If drilling -- and the development that comes with it -- is permitted in this important habitat, polar bears may abandon their dens, leaving cubs to die. I strongly urge you to support S.2316. Only a "wilderness" designation will stop the relentless efforts to drill in this special place and focus on real energy solutions like energy efficiency and the development of clean, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. view less Sincerely,
# 6,154:
11:01 am PDT, Sep 10,
Lenore Fradkin, New York
# 6,153:
10:56 am PDT, Sep 10,
Sabina Cushing, California
# 6,152:
10:20 am PDT, Sep 10,
Diane Schaffer, California
Dear Senators, I am writing today to strongly urge you to support S.2316 to permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. PLease!!! Sincerely, Diane Schaffer
Dear Senators, I am writing today to strongly urge you to support S.2316 to permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. PLease!!! Sincerely, Diane Schaffer
# 6,151:
10:06 am PDT, Sep 10,
Anne Cassels, Connecticut
We MUST save the environment for our future... our children. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is very important to the whole country( USA). Please work as a team to get this crucial work done.
We MUST save the environment for our future... our children. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is very important to the whole country( USA). Please work as a team to get this crucial work done.