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Tell ExxonMobil: Protect Polar Bears, Not Profits!

Target: Rex Tillerson, CEO, ExxonMobil
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
UPDATE: This week's closure of the BP pipeline in Prudhoe, AK underscores the dangers of arctic drilling. In March, the same pipeline leaked nearly 270,000 gallons of oil leaked onto the Arctic tundra. There are ~400 crude oil and toxic spills every year at the Prudhoe oil field. And it all happens just 30 miles from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

ExxonMobil is swimming in cash...while polar bears are drowning in the Arctic.

ExxonMobil raked in over $35 billion in profits in 2005, and another $8.4 billion in the first quarter of 2006. But where are Exxon's priorities?
  • ExxonMobil has given its former CEO Lee Raymond a retirement package worth almost $400 million. Yet, it still refuses to pay punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill that killed birds, fish, sea otters and other wildlife – some of which have yet to recover.
  • ExxonMobil is the sole major oil company to remain in Arctic Power, the lobbying group whose only purpose is to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to toxic oil drilling.
  • In the past five years, ExxonMobil has spent nearly $37 million on lobbyists and millions more in campaign contributions to relentlessly push its anti-wildlife agenda and fight efforts to curb global warming – the same warming that's melting sea ice and leaving walrus calves and polar bears to starve and drown.
Tell ExxonMobil's CEO to stop pushing for oil drilling in the Arctic Refuge; to withdraw its support of the pro-drilling Arctic Power lobbying firm; and to start investing in renewable energy for the future. Let ExxonMobil know that until they mend their anti-wildlife ways, you will be boycotting their gasoline!

deadline: 4-25-2007
goal: 75,000
 

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To CEO Rex Tillerson:

I am disturbed and frustrated by ExxonMobil's insistence on putting corporate profits before the protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat. Our country remains overly dependent on oil, and the dangers of global warming threaten current and future generations of people and wildlife. This addiction to oil represents a failed energy strategy, one that your company not only supports but has helped to develop.

I am most disturbed by:

*ExxonMobil's active support of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge;

* ExxonMobil's efforts to block meaningful action to cut global warming pollution and its funding of junk science to hide the real facts about global warming;

* ExxonMobil's conscious decision to forgo investment in clean energy solutions - despite your record profits at a time of rising gasoline prices;

* ExxonMobil's failure to pay all of the punitive damages awarded to fishermen and others injured by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

ExxonMobil represents yesterday's energy policy; I would rather spend my money and time moving forward, not backward. Therefore, I am pledging to boycott ExxonMobil until your company abandons its lobbying efforts to open the Arctic Refuge up to harmful drilling and takes meaningful action to curb global warming, to invest in renewable energy, and to pay for the damages done by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.


Sincerely,

[Your name]
[Your address]
We signed the “Tell ExxonMobil: Protect Polar Bears, Not Profits!” petition!
# 71,699:
6:05 pm PDT, Apr 23, Linda Gray, Florida
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9:09 pm PDT, Apr 22, Nate Woods, Pennsylvania
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3:18 pm PDT, Apr 20, Becky Visco, Texas
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2:44 pm PDT, Apr 20, Cynthia Parker, Virginia
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10:07 am PDT, Apr 20, Victoria Salinas, California
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9:25 pm PDT, Apr 19, Shanna Gillenwater, North Carolina
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7:17 pm PDT, Apr 19, Vicky Hsu, Maryland
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8:31 am PDT, Apr 19, Josie Godley, United Kingdom
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5:42 am PDT, Apr 19, Francesco Mengo, Italy
# 71,690:
5:06 am PDT, Apr 19, Massimo Barbieri, Italy
# 71,689:
4:04 am PDT, Apr 19, Ronald Huxford, United Kingdom
One Polar Bear is worth a thousand of you Money Mad Moguls!!
# 71,688:
3:25 am PDT, Apr 19, Claire Duque-Perez, Australia
Exxonmobil guys. You have lots of lands to do your thing, Please leave the Arctic in peace, animal life is as precious as yours, but you still don't know. What do you need to realize the damage you make to nature just for greed is for EVER.
# 71,687:
5:53 pm PDT, Apr 18, Lucia Duran, Mexico
# 71,686:
4:01 pm PDT, Apr 18, Jet Barrett, United Kingdom
# 71,685:
2:43 pm PDT, Apr 18, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Polar bears are such beautiful animals, we need to protect them!
# 71,684:
9:34 am PDT, Apr 18, John Edwards, Texas
stop killing our polar bears
# 71,683:
6:09 am PDT, Apr 18, Julie Simmons, Mississippi
Please find another alternative... protect this beautiful habitat. PLEASE!
# 71,682:
3:12 am PDT, Apr 18, Jolynn Gradt-Piper, Washington
# 71,681:
11:03 pm PDT, Apr 17, Jaime Cammarata, RD, Pennsylvania
# 71,680:
8:52 pm PDT, Apr 17, Cris Bisch, Oregon
# 71,679:
8:42 pm PDT, Apr 17, Angela VanCleve, Florida
# 71,678:
7:27 pm PDT, Apr 17, Deborah Niwa, Pennsylvania
ALL LIFE MATTERS... PLEASE LEAVE THEM ALONE.... THIS MATTERS TO ME... not oils or anything else that you can get out of Alaska... I CARE ABOUT THE WILDLIFE that YOU will be distroying..PLEASE DON'T...enough has been distroyed..
# 71,677:
7:12 pm PDT, Apr 17, Linda Gillenwater, North Carolina
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6:50 pm PDT, Apr 17, Caroline Anderson, Canada
# 71,675:
2:00 pm PDT, Apr 17, James Shaw, Florida
Hmmmmm, does wildlife really matter? Hmmmmm, does the wilderness really matter? Hmmmmm, does mankind really matter? Not to big money it doesn't. At least not until it hits them where it really hurts. In their seal leather wallets.
# 71,674:
5:49 am PDT, Apr 17, Isabel Maria De sousa, Portugal
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5:11 pm PDT, Apr 15, Sammantha Lyle, Indiana
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5:03 am PDT, Apr 14, Katie Theriault, Maine
# 71,671:
11:13 am PDT, Apr 13, Name not displayed, France
halte à la polution et que les polueurs paient leurs dégats
# 71,670:
9:55 am PDT, Apr 13, Luciagabriela Navarrete, New York
I have not bought any gas from this company since i own a car! I know for fact that they destroy every territory they work on. Look what they have done to ECUADOR they spilled millions of petroleum barrels destroying and killing the eco-system. I support Bp company a least they look for a solution
# 71,669:
8:49 am PDT, Apr 13, Arlene Longson, Canada
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8:21 am PDT, Apr 13, Robert Stockstill, California
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6:01 am PDT, Apr 13, Necole Cook, Virginia
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1:24 pm PDT, Apr 12, Elisabeth Askvärn, Sweden
Without the environment we cannot survive.
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9:53 am PDT, Apr 12, Lauren Langan, Pennsylvania
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6:01 am PDT, Apr 12, Steven Lenert, Wisconsin
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1:55 am PDT, Apr 12, Heidi S, Belgium
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10:22 pm PDT, Apr 11, Cebelica Osmanagic, Bosnia And Herzegovina
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5:44 pm PDT, Apr 11, Jessica Dimattia, North Carolina
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2:36 pm PDT, Apr 11, Lynne Kaiser, Wisconsin
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2:14 pm PDT, Apr 11, Jila Taghizadeh, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
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9:54 am PDT, Apr 11, Yvonne Bartsch, Illinois
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4:45 am PDT, Apr 11, Mechele Smith, Illinois
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11:46 am PDT, Apr 10, Amy Graves, California
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3:21 am PDT, Apr 10, Delyse Arliotis, United Kingdom
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10:53 pm PDT, Apr 9, Tereza Boreckova, Czech Republic
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11:25 am PDT, Apr 9, Samantha Hoos, New Jersey
I havn't bought Exxon nor Mobil in over 10 years and curently own a hybrid. I think the world needs to START NOW THINKING before people become extinct!
# 71,652:
9:29 am PDT, Apr 9, Christina Kohler, New Jersey
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5:32 pm PDT, Apr 8, John Chappell, Florida
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4:07 pm PDT, Apr 8, Linda Homer, Ohio
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2:40 pm PDT, Apr 8, Name not displayed, Virginia
# 71,648:
11:13 am PDT, Apr 8, Haydée Pisa, Portugal
What are they doing to our world?
# 71,647:
7:14 am PDT, Apr 8, Name not displayed, Vermont
# 71,646:
5:36 am PDT, Apr 8, Elin Sörstedt, Switzerland
Hello there! There is more to win for everyone of us if we treat the earth and ALL her creatures with respect. Please consider your buisseness as part of the circle of life, not as a distroyer. You are welcome in the community of love, why choose something else? best of love from a beautiful day of spring in sweden.
# 71,645:
3:41 am PDT, Apr 8, Naluswata Christine, Uganda
# 71,644:
12:57 am PDT, Apr 8, Lynda Lawson-Usher, Connecticut
I would have assumed after trashing the world with your pollution you'd know to leave the Bears alone..but maybe the greed factor is too much of a pull for you to think of leaving SOMETHING natural and wonderful to our grandkids..how about your own grandchildren? Will you ruin everything for them too? LEAVE the Bears alone and their home..you have enough$$$$
# 71,643:
11:36 pm PDT, Apr 7, Ramchand R, India
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10:47 pm PDT, Apr 7, Brenda Hodges, Louisiana
# 71,641:
9:22 pm PDT, Apr 7, Name not displayed, Texas
ExxonMobil will you consider investing in alternative sources of energy? You can make profits without destroying the earth
# 71,640:
8:55 pm PDT, Apr 7, Magali Gomez, Chile
Exxonmobil guys. You have lots of lands to do your thing, Please leave the Arctic in peace, animal life is as precious as yours, but you still don't know. What do you need to realize the damage you make to nature just for greed is for EVER.
# 71,639:
8:41 pm PDT, Apr 7, MICHAEL BOLGER, Ohio
# 71,638:
6:50 pm PDT, Apr 7, Name not displayed, South Carolina
We can not leave this problem for others to solve. One day it will be too late. Please act now.
# 71,637:
5:51 pm PDT, Apr 7, Pam Ferris, Michigan
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3:39 pm PDT, Apr 7, Lola Richards, Maine
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