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Oil Spill Still Plagues Alaskan Beaches After 20 Years - No More Drilling!
Target: Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar
Sponsored by: Oceana
Sponsored by: Oceana
As we learned from Exxon Valdez accident 20 years ago, oil has dire long-term impacts on marine ecosystems. It is nearly impossible to effectively clean up an oil spill in the oceans and the icebreakers, pipelines and other infrastructure necessary for oil development would further stress ocean wildlife.
Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez, more than 70 million acres of the U.S. Arctic Ocean have been made available for oil development, which would put already stressed ecosystems in further danger. Arctic peoples and animals rely on these ecosystems, and allowing offshore drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas is a recipe for disaster.
Tell the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, that offshore drilling in the Arctic is not the answer to our energy woes and that we need a science-based precautionary approach to protect the Arctic Ocean. Urgent: The comment period ends on March 30!
Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez, more than 70 million acres of the U.S. Arctic Ocean have been made available for oil development, which would put already stressed ecosystems in further danger. Arctic peoples and animals rely on these ecosystems, and allowing offshore drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas is a recipe for disaster.
Tell the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, that offshore drilling in the Arctic is not the answer to our energy woes and that we need a science-based precautionary approach to protect the Arctic Ocean. Urgent: The comment period ends on March 30!
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# 4,020:
11:54 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Steve Strater, Florida
When will we learn that oil and oil drilling are a waste of time and only create more problems than solutions. Oil is a quick-fix - period, and we need to move on. SHS
When will we learn that oil and oil drilling are a waste of time and only create more problems than solutions. Oil is a quick-fix - period, and we need to move on. SHS
# 4,018:
11:47 pm PDT, Mar 30,
VIVIANE TITS, Belgium
La terre n'appartient pas à l'être humain. Nous nous devons de la respecter. Il n'est pas normal qu'au nom de l'argent, nous détruisions la région artique ou n'importe quelle autre région terrestre. Espérons que la vision du chef amérindien se réalisera et que les Combattants de l'Arc-en-ciel apparaîtront pour rétablir la terre dans sa beauté initiale.
La terre n'appartient pas à l'être humain. Nous nous devons de la respecter. Il n'est pas normal qu'au nom de l'argent, nous détruisions la région artique ou n'importe quelle autre région terrestre. Espérons que la vision du chef amérindien se réalisera et que les Combattants de l'Arc-en-ciel apparaîtront pour rétablir la terre dans sa beauté initiale.
# 4,019:
11:46 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Jeremy Roberts, Hawaii
# 4,017:
11:43 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Leona Roberts, Hawaii
Please help and put an end to activities that could cause irreversable and catastrophic damages to our planet. Please consider the damages that have already happened! It's time to save what's left and begin working harder to preserve and renew what remains of this precious planet we call home. Hey! That would include, you, everyone you love, the rest of the human race and every living thing on planet Earth!!! You know as well as I do that one of the solutions is alternative energy and I'm not talking about something that creates dangerous waste like nuclear!It shouldn't have to be spelled-out that it would be completely ignorant to allow the correct decisions to continue to be forsaken! Please don't implement foolhardy, uninformed choices for the sake of money. The world is already balancing on a dangerous precipice. Please, wakeup and choose intelligent desisions over stupid ones! Don't you think it's time everyone figured out that iit can't be about the money anymore! These are issues far more important than money! I doubt you are so unintelligent as not to have figured that out yet! Unless they are seriously impaired, I truly believe that humans are all very intelligent beings.Please stop disappointing me AND yourselves.
Please help and put an end to activities that could cause irreversable and catastrophic damages to our planet. Please consider the damages that have already happened! It's time to save what's left and begin working harder to preserve and renew what remains of this precious planet we call home. Hey! That would include, you, everyone you love, the rest of the human race and every living thing on planet Earth!!! You know as well as I do that one of the solutions is alternative energy and I'm not talking about something that creates dangerous waste like nuclear!It shouldn't have to be spelled-out that it would be completely ignorant to allow the correct decisions to continue to be forsaken! Please don't implement foolhardy, uninformed choices for the sake of money. The world is already balancing on a dangerous precipice. Please, wakeup and choose intelligent desisions over stupid ones! Don't you think it's time everyone figured out that iit can't be about the money anymore! These are issues far more important than money! I doubt you are so unintelligent as not to have figured that out yet! Unless they are seriously impaired, I truly believe that humans are all very intelligent beings.Please stop disappointing me AND yourselves.
# 4,016:
10:28 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Madhura Nadkarni, California
# 4,015:
10:27 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Llew Taylor, Pennsylvania
# 4,014:
10:15 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Vidya Sims, California
# 4,013:
10:02 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Camilo Garcia, Texas
# 4,012:
9:22 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Corinne Burchett, California
# 4,011:
8:53 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Noel Parenti, North Carolina
# 4,010:
8:50 pm PDT, Mar 30,
William McLaughlin, California
# 4,009:
8:18 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Judy Noll, Washington
Pleas let's just do the right thing in this situation and NOT drill. This ecosystem is so fragile and threatened, we should concentrate our resources and efforts to develop alternative fuel sources now. If those approaches don't work, I suppose we could revisiit this issue sometime in the future. But once we invade this area, there will be irreparable damage. Let's not go there now.
Pleas let's just do the right thing in this situation and NOT drill. This ecosystem is so fragile and threatened, we should concentrate our resources and efforts to develop alternative fuel sources now. If those approaches don't work, I suppose we could revisiit this issue sometime in the future. But once we invade this area, there will be irreparable damage. Let's not go there now.
# 4,008:
8:10 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Adam Smith, Pennsylvania
# 4,007:
7:56 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Sandy Garcia, Arizona
# 4,006:
7:53 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Name not displayed, North Carolina
Many of us have stopped purchasing Exxon products until the company properly addresses this to the satisfaction of the local professionals. That's correct! I have not bought Exxon gas for the past 20 years. Exxon's poor environmental record speaks louder than anything their marketing department can put out. Once and for all, Exxon, do the right thing!
Many of us have stopped purchasing Exxon products until the company properly addresses this to the satisfaction of the local professionals. That's correct! I have not bought Exxon gas for the past 20 years. Exxon's poor environmental record speaks louder than anything their marketing department can put out. Once and for all, Exxon, do the right thing!
# 4,005:
7:51 pm PDT, Mar 30,
William Reamy, Maryland
Please make the correct decision. Once you make the wrong choice, it is difficult if not impossible to undo the damage you allowed to happen.
Please make the correct decision. Once you make the wrong choice, it is difficult if not impossible to undo the damage you allowed to happen.
# 4,004:
7:49 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Rollie Bland, California
# 4,003:
7:33 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
# 4,002:
7:31 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Zephyr Alleshouse, Illinois
# 4,001:
7:08 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Dimi Spasic, Serbia And Montenegro
# 4,000:
7:03 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Jeff Gammill, Texas
# 3,999:
6:55 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Jackie Baut, Philippines
# 3,998:
6:55 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Carole Blakey, Washington
# 3,997:
6:47 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Carla Meyer, Illinois
Drilling in Alaska or any where near it, is NOT the answer. After twenty years and the so-called accident of the Exxon-Valdez is prove enough. Still this company has yet to be accountable for this so-called accident and it hasn't. Keep oil drilling OUT of the Arctic Ocean and the Arctic PERIOD! It's not needed.
Drilling in Alaska or any where near it, is NOT the answer. After twenty years and the so-called accident of the Exxon-Valdez is prove enough. Still this company has yet to be accountable for this so-called accident and it hasn't. Keep oil drilling OUT of the Arctic Ocean and the Arctic PERIOD! It's not needed.
# 3,996:
6:17 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Trevor Landry, Canada
# 3,995:
6:12 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Jana Manke, Maryland
It is time to rid ourselves of archaic practices and find real solutions that will benefit animals, the environment & man! It can be done ~ it only takes some effort! Let us learn from past mistakes! ]=0
It is time to rid ourselves of archaic practices and find real solutions that will benefit animals, the environment & man! It can be done ~ it only takes some effort! Let us learn from past mistakes! ]=0
# 3,994:
6:11 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Roidina Salisbury, California
# 3,993:
5:41 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Vinicios José Dias, Brazil
# 3,992:
5:36 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Sierra Wigington, California
# 3,991:
5:31 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Timothy Sanchez, Massachusetts
# 3,990:
5:28 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Adrian Bradley, Massachusetts
# 3,989:
4:54 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Justine Perrizo, California
# 3,988:
4:51 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Sheryl Davis, Ohio
# 3,987:
4:47 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Jenny Burger, Georgia
# 3,986:
4:35 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Susan Marden, Maine
# 3,985:
4:32 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Summer Swallow, California
# 3,984:
4:23 pm PDT, Mar 30,
David Wright, Connecticut
# 3,983:
4:14 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Walter Zielinski, Ohio
# 3,982:
4:00 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Margaret Tollner, California
# 3,981:
3:26 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Lillian Marino, Washington
# 3,980:
3:25 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Weeping Eagle, North Carolina
See this innocent duck after 20 years and you want to put oil line under the ocean and mess up all of the creatures lives or maybe kill them off all of them. Oh Heck No!!! Open your eyes are you blind?
See this innocent duck after 20 years and you want to put oil line under the ocean and mess up all of the creatures lives or maybe kill them off all of them. Oh Heck No!!! Open your eyes are you blind?
# 3,979:
3:11 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Tia Pinela, California
There is so little to be gained and so much to be lost by drilling in the Arctic, it is simply not worth the risk. We do NOT need that oil that badly. We can save much more oil than we would get from the Arctic with simple fuel economy improvements, and much sooner than this oil would be available anyway. Please rescind the oil and gas leases before it is too late. All life in the Arctic is already at risk from global warming. Don't allow this fragile ecosystem and the life it supports to be sacrificed to oil company greed.
There is so little to be gained and so much to be lost by drilling in the Arctic, it is simply not worth the risk. We do NOT need that oil that badly. We can save much more oil than we would get from the Arctic with simple fuel economy improvements, and much sooner than this oil would be available anyway. Please rescind the oil and gas leases before it is too late. All life in the Arctic is already at risk from global warming. Don't allow this fragile ecosystem and the life it supports to be sacrificed to oil company greed.
# 3,978:
2:39 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Kent Szabo, Colorado
# 3,977:
2:21 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Name not displayed, New York
# 3,976:
2:21 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Kristina Pistone, California
This isn't something we can go back on... once it's done, it's irreversible, so we should take into account all effects before acting in such a destructive manner.
This isn't something we can go back on... once it's done, it's irreversible, so we should take into account all effects before acting in such a destructive manner.
# 3,975:
1:35 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Vercknocke Pascal, France
# 3,974:
1:26 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Christopher Turner, Mississippi
# 3,973:
1:25 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Tara Warren, Mississippi
# 3,972:
1:19 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Name not displayed, Belgium
# 3,971:
1:05 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Tiffany Lauman, Pennsylvania
# 3,970:
12:58 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Rick Blair, California
# 3,969:
12:55 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Michael Bidese, California
# 3,968:
12:52 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Carol Martin, Texas
# 3,967:
12:44 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Amy Yurkovich, Colorado
# 3,966:
12:39 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Kina Ives, Massachusetts
# 3,965:
12:30 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Alison Williams, Texas
Please Please we have to get off oil!
Please Please we have to get off oil!
# 3,964:
12:02 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Dorothy Bruce, New Mexico
We do not need to rush into exploration.
We do not need to rush into exploration.
# 3,963:
12:00 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Dale Anania, California
# 3,962:
11:50 am PDT, Mar 30,
Megan Bray, Pennsylvania
# 3,961:
11:41 am PDT, Mar 30,
Eléonore Visart, Belgium
ASSEZ de ces humains qui polluent! Pas fière de faire partie de cette humanité. Yves Paccalet a raison de dire "L'humanité disparaitra! Bon débarras!"
ASSEZ de ces humains qui polluent! Pas fière de faire partie de cette humanité. Yves Paccalet a raison de dire "L'humanité disparaitra! Bon débarras!"
# 3,960:
11:36 am PDT, Mar 30,
Charlie Trapp, Tennessee
PLEASE cut the oil companies off at the knees and reset our energy policies away from oil production efforts and toward more sustainable issues like conservation and green energy efforts.
PLEASE cut the oil companies off at the knees and reset our energy policies away from oil production efforts and toward more sustainable issues like conservation and green energy efforts.
# 3,958:
11:28 am PDT, Mar 30,
Dorothy Gardner, Massachusetts
# 3,957:
11:26 am PDT, Mar 30,
Ana Martinez Anaya, Mexico
# 3,956:
11:20 am PDT, Mar 30,
David Aho, Michigan
We have seen what happens when we do NOT regulate, therefore it is critical that we do NOT allow this to continue unchecked. This industry is and has never been a responsible corporate citizen, so the people of this country expect our government to take the necessary steps to properly protect our environment. No amount of monetary gain is worth the devastation that has already occurred. We the people say "NO MORE". Please do you job and do it right!!
We have seen what happens when we do NOT regulate, therefore it is critical that we do NOT allow this to continue unchecked. This industry is and has never been a responsible corporate citizen, so the people of this country expect our government to take the necessary steps to properly protect our environment. No amount of monetary gain is worth the devastation that has already occurred. We the people say "NO MORE". Please do you job and do it right!!
# 3,955:
11:08 am PDT, Mar 30,
Laetitia Tapon, France
# 3,954:
11:05 am PDT, Mar 30,
Nancy Allison, New Hampshire
We need to step back and halt any future drilling and get on with finding alternative sources of energy so we can wean ourselves off oil and gas forever.
We need to step back and halt any future drilling and get on with finding alternative sources of energy so we can wean ourselves off oil and gas forever.
# 3,953:
10:54 am PDT, Mar 30,
Petitjean Nancy, Belgium
# 3,952:
10:47 am PDT, Mar 30,
Isabelle Lacroix, France
# 3,951:
10:41 am PDT, Mar 30,
Estelle Taupin, France
