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Save America's Treasured Wild Places from Oil and Gas Rigs
- signatures:
- deadline: November 13, 2007
- signature goal: 10,000
- Target: Kempthorne, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Sponsored by: The Wilderness Society
We cannot stand by watching as some of our last treasured wild lands are being plundered for questionable amounts of energy places like Utahs Redrock Wilderness, the Rocky Mountain Front, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is not smart energy policy.
We now have an opportunity to correct this poor plan. Don't let America's wild places suffer from this misguided policy. Join The Wilderness Society in sending an urgent message to the Interior Department!
Dear Secretary Kempthorne:
I understand that the Bureau of Land Management and oil and gas industry plan to drill more than 118,000 new wells on public lands in the West over the next two decades.
[your comment here]
This alarming concentration on oil and gas development comes with a huge price-tag of degraded wildlife habitat and polluted air and water. At risk are municipal watersheds, proposed wilderness, and remarkable places like Wyoming's Upper Green River Valley, an irreplaceable big game migration corridor.
This shortsighted plan to benefit Industry comes at a time when the courts, the GAO and even the Bureau of Land Management have indicated that leasing cannot take place on such a scale and be done responsibly.
I want you to know that I oppose this wanton leasing program and I call on you to put a stop to it. Yes, there are places in America where oil and gas development can take place, but those areas must be carefully selected and developed with the highest environmental safeguards.
America needs an energy policy that will wean us from our dependence on fossil fuels by encouraging the more efficient use of our energy resources and the development of clean and safe alternative technologies.
Sincerely,
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