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Dear Aubrey,
Despite press accounts that new offshore drilling is on hold, Shell Oil is moving forward with plans to start exploratory drilling in the Arctic Ocean this July—even before we know what caused the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The Obama administration should officially withdraw approval of Shell's summer drilling plans and conduct a complete reassessment in light of the ongoing Gulf oil spill. For far too long, government regulatory agencies have accepted the oil industry’s assurances about its ability to prevent and respond to oil spills. In the case of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the industry convinced government regulators that the chance of a large spill was too small to justify a detailed analysis of environmental impacts. When questioned on the impacts from a large spill in the Arctic Ocean, Shell states: “a large oil spill, such as a crude oil release from a blowout, is extremely rare and not considered a reasonably foreseeable impact.” The Department of the Interior has accepted these assurances from Shell Oil and has not analyzed the impacts of a large spill in the Arctic Ocean—a fragile environment that is home to polar bears, whales, walruses, and a wide variety of migratory birds. The Gulf spill tragically shows that the industry’s “fail-safe” technologies can fail. In the Arctic Ocean, extreme weather, 20-foot ocean swells, and broken ice make oil spill cleanup nearly impossible. In fact, no technology currently exists that can contain or clean up an oil spill in the shifting ice of the Arctic Ocean. ![]() Trouble with the "Take Action" links in the message? Try cutting-and-pasting this link into your web browser: www.audubonaction.org/site/Advocacy?id=854 |
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Dear DU Supporter, We need your help to secure funding for the oil spill recovery effort. ![]() Congress is working to pass a supplemental bill that has little funding to support clean-up operations on the Gulf coast. Representative's John Dingell (MI), Lois Capps (CA), Mike Thompson (CA), and Charlie Melancon (LA) are circulating a Dear Colleague letter in the House of Representatives encouraging their colleagues to support increased funding of $85 million. This funding would go to assist the U.S Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with their response and recovery efforts to address economic and environmental damages resulting from the oil spill. Now is the time to contact your members of Congress and ask them to sign on to the Dingell/Capps/Thompson/Melancon Dear Colleague letter. Sincerely, Dale Hall DU Chief Executive Officer | |
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