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Urge Congress to Permanently Protect the Arctic Refuge!
Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Care2
Sponsored by: Care2
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds. It is also the most important onshore denning habitat for America's vanishing polar bears.
But this natural treasure is constantly under siege. Time and time again, the oil industry and their allies in Congress have sought to open this special place to harmful new drilling, threatening all of the wildlife that depend on it for survival.
And now President Bush has called for drilling in the Arctic Refuge by 2010 in his new budget proposal!
We need to permanently protect the Arctic Refuge! Urge your Representative to support the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 39) to permanently protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
But this natural treasure is constantly under siege. Time and time again, the oil industry and their allies in Congress have sought to open this special place to harmful new drilling, threatening all of the wildlife that depend on it for survival.
And now President Bush has called for drilling in the Arctic Refuge by 2010 in his new budget proposal!
We need to permanently protect the Arctic Refuge! Urge your Representative to support the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 39) to permanently protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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It would be terrible if what's left of the protected wildlife be destroyed by oil drilling; please protect and stop this drilling from happening
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We can come up with better solutions than drilling in areas that will hurt our other precious limited resources. Thank you.
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As your constituent, I am deeply concerned about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the treasured wildlife that lives there. That's why I strongly urge you to ensure that this national treasure is permanently protected to the full extent of the law by supporting the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 39).
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This is not the answer. Find one!
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Congress couldn't allow drilling in the Arctic Refuge when Republicans had control. However, they keep introducing bills. Let's permanently protect the Arctic Refuge so that Congress can stop wasting it's time every year and find real solutions to global warming and new cleaner technology.
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Dear Representative, As your constituent, I am deeply concerned about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the treasured wildlife that lives there. That's why I strongly urge you to ensure that this national treasure is permanently protected to the full extent of the law by supporting the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 39). The bill, sponsored by Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-MN), would designate the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a wilderness area with permanent protections. These permanent protections are especially important for America's remaining polar bears. According to a U.S. Geological Survey report, polar bears will likely be extinct in Alaska in as little as 50 years due to rapidly melting sea ice. The Arctic Refuge is one of the most important onshore denning habitats for these magnificent creatures -- and permanent protections will give them a fighting chance at survival. view more This special place has long been protected from harmful new drilling operations. But year after year, big oil companies and their allies continue lobbying to open up the Refuge to new drilling. This can only have devastating consequences for our imperiled wildlife. Drilling and the transportation and infrastructure needed to support it could wreak havoc on the Arctic Refuge and the animals like caribou, our last remaining polar bears and the millions of migratory birds that depend on this vital habitat. With around 400 crude oil and toxic spills each year and just 30 miles west of the Refuge, the Prudhoe oil field is testament to the destruction that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would face if Big Oil were allowed in. In light of these facts, I strongly urge you to support H.R. 39 and permanent protection for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Only this type of "wilderness" designation will stop the ceaseless efforts to drill in this special place -- and give America's struggling polar bears a chance at survival. Thank you for taking the time to consider my comments. I eagerly await your response. Sincerely, Vanessa Roebke
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Please PROTECT this national asset!!!!
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Please save our vanishing resorces. We need CLEAN/sustainable fuel- and soon the oil will be gone too. ( alankans are jaded with their annual payout/payoff for short temr profits- as an incentive to use up their resources) Dont' sell us out to Arabia, and big oil.( Exxon has records profits at the expense of the vanishing middle class) Detroit can build hydrogen fuel cells, and MTI can build better batteries. The oil is also a vanishing resource anyway- so we need to do inevidable and develop sustainable resources/fuels.
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There are just somethings that don't need to be distroyed by man kind...and this is one of them..please save something for futher generations to enjoy...the world doesn't need fuel so badly that it has to distroy one of the most beautiful places on the planet...i know this for a fact because i have seen it first hand. STOP THIS PROJECT
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PLease do not EVER drill where Artic wildlife will be affected.
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We sell the majority of the oil drilled in Alaska to other countries anyway, so drilling would NOT ease gasoline prices, nor oil prices, other countries would just purchase them anyway. And it's not just gasoline that drives crude oil, many other factors and derivitives push oil to higher prices. It's not worth the price for another oil spill. Renewable energy is the solution. Better engines in autos. More public transit. Better infrastructure. Let's invest in our OWN future, and not the future of a family with a history of powerful oil lands. So far, Congress has done a decent job making these things work, but I think we can do a better job and become much more aggressive to making these things happen by 2014.
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