Arctic sea ice reached its lowest level in recorded history this week and the melting still isn’t done this year.
The Arctic has lost 75% of its ice by volume since the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) started recording this information in 1979. Less Arctic sea ice means a warmer planet and a change in climate patterns — that’s bad news. Unless you are Shell and want to drill in the Arctic.
Shell is in danger of missing its window to drill exploratory wells in the Arctic this summer due to its own incompetence. Shell has proven it is not Arctic ready. But now because of the sea ice melt, the company is asking the government to give it more time. Unbelievable.
The Arctic has lost 75% of its ice by volume since the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) started recording this information in 1979. Less Arctic sea ice means a warmer planet and a change in climate patterns — that’s bad news. Unless you are Shell and want to drill in the Arctic.
Shell is in danger of missing its window to drill exploratory wells in the Arctic this summer due to its own incompetence. Shell has proven it is not Arctic ready. But now because of the sea ice melt, the company is asking the government to give it more time. Unbelievable.
Interior Secretary Salazar announced
yesterday that he was going to let Shell move forward with certain
activities even though its main oil spill response vessel is not ready.
He also wouldn’t say an extension was off the table if things changed.
We can’t let that happen..
Tell Interior Secretary Salazar not to extend Shell’s drilling window in the Arctic.
Shell’s extension request must be denied and its plans to drill in the Arctic stopped. Scientists predict that the North Pole could be completely free of ice during summer within the next few years. Melting sea ice from global warming is a warning to humanity, not an invitation for big oil to drill.
That’s why we’re running one of our biggest campaigns ever to create a global sanctuary in the high Arctic — making it off limits to oil drilling and other industrial activities. It’s not just the future of polar bears that is at stake, it’s the future of the planet.
Tell Interior Secretary Salazar not to extend Shell’s drilling window in the Arctic.
Shell’s extension request must be denied and its plans to drill in the Arctic stopped. Scientists predict that the North Pole could be completely free of ice during summer within the next few years. Melting sea ice from global warming is a warning to humanity, not an invitation for big oil to drill.
That’s why we’re running one of our biggest campaigns ever to create a global sanctuary in the high Arctic — making it off limits to oil drilling and other industrial activities. It’s not just the future of polar bears that is at stake, it’s the future of the planet.
A major part of our campaign right now is stopping Shell from drilling this summer. The best way to do that is to make sure the drilling window isn’t extended.
Secretary Salazar has already publicly stated that he wouldn’t extend Shell’s drilling window this summer. At a press conference in Anchorage he said, “I will hold their feet to the fire in terms of making sure that we are doing everything we can to abide by the standards and regulations we have set...” Let’s hold him to his word.
Take a minute to remind Secretary Salazar of his statement and tell him not to extend Shell’s drilling window in the Arctic.
I don’t just believe that the creation of a global sanctuary in the high Arctic is possible. I know it. Greenpeace achieved the very same thing twenty years ago when Antarctica was declared a World Park, off-limits to industrialization. Now it’s our turn to make history and to do the same thing at the other end of the planet.
Save the Arctic,
Dan Howells
Greenpeace USA Deputy Campaigns Director
Secretary Salazar has already publicly stated that he wouldn’t extend Shell’s drilling window this summer. At a press conference in Anchorage he said, “I will hold their feet to the fire in terms of making sure that we are doing everything we can to abide by the standards and regulations we have set...” Let’s hold him to his word.
Take a minute to remind Secretary Salazar of his statement and tell him not to extend Shell’s drilling window in the Arctic.
I don’t just believe that the creation of a global sanctuary in the high Arctic is possible. I know it. Greenpeace achieved the very same thing twenty years ago when Antarctica was declared a World Park, off-limits to industrialization. Now it’s our turn to make history and to do the same thing at the other end of the planet.
Save the Arctic,
Dan Howells
Greenpeace USA Deputy Campaigns Director
