Dear Maryland Birder:
Please read the alert below from the National Audubon Society, and join me
in taking action by sending an email to President Obama.
AUDUBON ACTION ALERT
As you read this, Shell Oil's rigs are making their way to the Arctic
Ocean to start drilling, as soon as July. The ships are headed to Arctic
waters where, twenty years after the Exxon Valdez, fish and wildlife
species are still impacted by exposure to lingering oil.[1]
The memory of the BP oil spill and its environmental devastation is still
fresh in our minds, but despite these disasters, the oil industry now has
its sights on the fragile Arctic Ocean.
***Take Action***
Please tell President Obama to protect the America's Arctic Ocean!
http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserActio
n&id=1279
The waters along Alaska's northern coast provide vital habitat for polar
bears, walruses, ice-dependent seals, endangered bowhead whales, and
millions of migratory birds. The Arctic Ocean also is a phenomenally harsh
environment. Broken ice covers the Arctic Ocean for much of the year.
Storms with hurricane-force winds can whip up 20-foot seas. Temperatures
drop to 40 below zero. It is dark half the year. The oil industry is not
prepared to drill safely in the Arctic Ocean.
Retired Vice Admiral Roder Ruff, who helped prepare the Coast Guard's
review of the BP oil disaster, has described the U.S. ability to address a
spill in icy conditions as "pretty abysmal."[2] The United States
Geological Survey, the scientific branch of the Department of the
Interior, concluded that because of major scientific gaps about the
ecology of the Arctic Ocean "it is difficult, if not impossible" to make
informed science-based decisions about oil and gas development in
America's Arctic Ocean. More than 500 scientists recently joined in
sending a letter to President Obama asking him to not allow oil drilling
to proceed this summer.[3]
Drilling in the Arctic Ocean is unsafe, not supported by the science, and
threatens millions of migratory birds.
***Take Action***
Join over one million people who have already asked the President to
protect America's Arctic Ocean. Please send your email today:
http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserActio
n&id=1279
Sincerely,
David Yarnold
President & CEO
[1] http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/recovery/status.cfm
[2]
http://www.adn.com/2012/03/04/2351722/shell-oil-drilling-rig-set-for.html#s
torylink=cpy
[3]
http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/other-resources/scientists-call-on-
obama-administration-to-use-science-as-guide-for-arctic-drilling-8589936951
2
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