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No Offshore Drilling in Polar Bear Habitat!

Target: Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
It's no secret that polar bears are in trouble. Global warming and habitat loss are driving these majestic animals to the brink of extinction.

Yet even as the government's own scientists have acknowledged these threats, the Bush/Cheney Administration has just announced oil and gas exploration plans that would disturb essential polar bear habitat and fuel America's dependence on fossil fuels that cause global warming.

Sign our petition to urge Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to delay the planned February 6th sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea until the impact on the area's polar bears can be adequately determined.
deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 20,000
 

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Stop the Chukchi Sea Oil & Gas Lease Sale

Dear Secretary Kempthorne,

As someone who is gravely concerned about the future of America’s struggling polar bears, I strongly urge you to delay the February 6th lease sale and all subsequent sales of offshore drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea.

Your department has proposed protecting polar bears under the Endangered Species Act, and there is broad scientific consensus that global warming and habitat loss are driving these majestic animals to the brink of extinction.

Yet, the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service is moving forward with oil and gas lease sales for drilling that would disturb essential polar bear habitat and fuel America’s dependence on fossil fuels that cause global warming. Polar bears will have a hard enough time surviving without the additional stresses associated with new drilling in the habitat they need to survive.

Scientists with the U.S. Geologic Survey predict that polar bears could disappear entirely from Alaska in the next 50 years. Oil companies that want to drill in polar bear habitat can wait. Our vanishing polar bears cannot.

I strongly urge you to delay the February 6th lease sale and all subsequent sales of offshore drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea. Thank you for considering my comments.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]
We signed the “No Offshore Drilling in Polar Bear Habitat!” petition!
# 100:
2:04 pm PST, Jan 8, John Daly, Vermont
# 99:
2:04 pm PST, Jan 8, Susan Johnsen, California
# 98:
2:03 pm PST, Jan 8, Judi Nichols, New Jersey
Yeah, Mr. Bush...you just keep on selling off the world bit by bit. I certainly hope that your children and their children suffer the cost of what you do.
# 97:
2:03 pm PST, Jan 8, Catherine Bolten, California
We must expend our efforts protecting those animals that are being harmed by global warming, not destroying their habitat while simultaneously promoting more warming. This is illogical madness, and it must stop.
# 96:
2:03 pm PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, Texas
Why kill our Polar Bears NExt thing you know you will be trying to kill us humans. So just stop evey life is important
# 95:
2:03 pm PST, Jan 8, Shirley Paul, Virginia
# 94:
2:03 pm PST, Jan 8, Lyndi Borne, New Jersey
# 93:
2:03 pm PST, Jan 8, James Calhoun, Washington
# 92:
2:03 pm PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, Illinois
It is very important that the offshore drilling leases not be sold! Please help prevent this. Thank you.
# 91:
2:03 pm PST, Jan 8, Steve Holzberg, California
# 90:
2:03 pm PST, Jan 8, Kayvan Zainabadi, Massachusetts
# 89:
2:03 pm PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, Florida
# 88:
2:02 pm PST, Jan 8, A. Kemler, New York
This error will not be "fixable" by future generations.
# 87:
2:02 pm PST, Jan 8, Catherine Hawthorne, Maine
# 86:
2:02 pm PST, Jan 8, Lori Price, Connecticut
Dictator Bush and Cheney Halliburton need to be tried for treason. Stop the drilling. Citizens for Legitimate Government www.legitgov.org
# 85:
2:02 pm PST, Jan 8, Richard Vincent, Wyoming
# 84:
2:02 pm PST, Jan 8, Robert Anger, California
# 83:
2:02 pm PST, Jan 8, Elizabeth Green, Oklahoma
# 82:
2:01 pm PST, Jan 8, Janet Skjei, Minnesota
# 81:
2:01 pm PST, Jan 8, Marilyn Signer, Florida
Once the polar bears are gone, they're gone for good. No one can make another one. The Alaskan oil will be gone sooner or later and then what will we give up?
# 80:
2:01 pm PST, Jan 8, CHOLENA PEGUES, Massachusetts
# 79:
2:01 pm PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, California
Surprisingly, another bad decision. These older people in government are so stubborn to change. Leave the polar bears alone! Humans come and they destroy what natural habitats animals have by thinking they are doing good. You would think by now we would have stopped to really think of how to reverse the damage we have done. While here, it is evident that the Bush Administration has gone to lengths to make future plans to continue destroying the little that is left. Someone please take a science class!
# 78:
2:01 pm PST, Jan 8, Shannon Rowland, Florida
# 77:
2:01 pm PST, Jan 8, Anne Orth, Missouri
# 76:
2:01 pm PST, Jan 8, Debbie Eichel, Maine
We need to try to help save the polar bears, not hurry their extinction.
# 75:
2:01 pm PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, New York
# 74:
2:01 pm PST, Jan 8, Cindy Gatlin, South Carolina
# 73:
2:00 pm PST, Jan 8, Heather Smith, Maryland
# 72:
2:00 pm PST, Jan 8, Vicky Sturn, Washington
# 71:
2:00 pm PST, Jan 8, Cobi F., Wisconsin
# 70:
2:00 pm PST, Jan 8, Gloria Chepko, Virginia
# 69:
2:00 pm PST, Jan 8, Erich Richter, Washington
# 68:
2:00 pm PST, Jan 8, Dave Louie, Washington
# 67:
2:00 pm PST, Jan 8, Charlene Luttge, Washington
we need to learn other ways than oil. take care of the bears. we are destroying their land and the world. Stop it!
# 66:
2:00 pm PST, Jan 8, Miguel Romera, Mexico
make the difference
# 65:
1:59 pm PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, Utah
We need to protect the polar bears habitat. Offshore drilling only compounds the problem and should be banned.
# 64:
1:59 pm PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, New York
# 63:
1:59 pm PST, Jan 8, Mary Lynch, Pennsylvania
# 62:
1:59 pm PST, Jan 8, Craig McCall, Puerto Rico
# 61:
1:59 pm PST, Jan 8, Niki Learn, New Jersey
Despite the overly dramatic language in the petition, it makes no sense to delay a decision on listing an animal as an endangered species and then sell off prime habitat to oil companies. That smacks of something fishy. Why don't you focus more of your efforts on reducing our dependcy on (and overindulgent/generally wasteful use of) fossil fuels instead of messing with one of our finest remaining habitats?
# 60:
1:59 pm PST, Jan 8, Colin Donoghue, Oregon
We should be using Hemp-Ethanol fuel, solar, wind, geothermal, etc. NOT oil, stop supporting the oil companies that dont need any more sickening profit and start supporting the health of Americans, wildlife and the planet as a whole.
# 59:
1:59 pm PST, Jan 8, Jacqueline Rodgers, Illinois
# 58:
1:59 pm PST, Jan 8, Alex Von Dallwitz, California
# 57:
1:58 pm PST, Jan 8, David Sklar, New Jersey
This is obscene.
# 56:
1:58 pm PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, Wisconsin
I oppose selling offshore drilling leases in Alaska's Chukchi Sea because of my concern for polar bear habitat and also because I firmly believe we as a country should be actively pursuing other sources of energy.
# 55:
1:58 pm PST, Jan 8, Julia Raybould, New York
# 54:
1:58 pm PST, Jan 8, Susan Chambers, Texas
Would you please get off this "Whatever the Bush-Cheney Nazi Power Elite Wants" kick. For God's sake how many times does the country have to tell you WE DO NOT AGREE WITH BUSH. HE IS EVIL and BENT ON DESTROYING EVERY LAST GOOD THING IN THIS COUNRTY. Can you not at least stand up for the good of the country instead of the continuing this scorched earth policy. JEEZ...enough is ENOUGH!!!!!!!
# 53:
1:58 pm PST, Jan 8, Sarah Carpenter, Idaho
Mr. Kempthorne, As a native Idahoan I am very protective of our public lands. We must save these places for future generations. I know that you are an outdoor enthusiast as well as being an Idahoan yourself. Please look into your heart not your wallet when deciding on this issue. Thank you for your time and consideration on this issue. God bless America!!!
# 52:
1:58 pm PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, California
Save the bears - skin a republican.
# 51:
1:58 pm PST, Jan 8, Kristian Wilson, Florida