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ACTION: Trump's Interior Dept to Open ENTIRE Arctic National Wildlife Refuge For Drilling
As Climate Change demonstrations wrap the world with an estimated 7,000,000 attendees last week, Republicans are the idiots with their heads in the sand thinking that we need to drill for more oil. It's painful that people so stupid exist.
The Arctic Refuge is being opened drilling that will be devastating for the landscape and wildlife, polluting the environment and increasing emissions.
The Trump administration announced Thursday [9/12/19] its final plan to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, giving the petroleum industry access to the pristine wildland for the first time.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will offer leases on essentially the entire 1.6m-acre coastal plain, which includes places where threatened polar bears have dens and porcupine caribou visit for calving. Drilling operations are expected to be problematic for Indigenous populations, many of which rely on subsistence hunting and fishing.
The proposal — which would open the entire coastal plain to the energy industry — was seen as the most extreme of three options considered by the Interior Department.
We only have one earth. There is no choice but to take care of it. The world's last great untouched wilderness is under attack by the Republican EPA. The Republican Party is morally bankrupt.
The Democrat-controlled House just hours earlier passed legislation to protect the area, but Republicans in the majority in the Senate are highly unlikely to approve the bill.
The environmentally-sensitive area of Alaska’s Arctic was forbidden for drilling until a change by Congress in an unrelated 2017 tax bill...
The administration originally predicted that oil lease sales within the refuge would generate $1.8 billion for the federal government by 2027. But since then, the projections have fallen considerably. An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office published in June estimated the government would net about $900 million — half the amount the White House had said.
ACTION. Sign this change.org petition please: https://www.change.org/p/no-drilling-in-the-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge
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