Polar Bear Poison: Keep Deadly
Oil Out of Arctic Waters -
A deadly new Arctic Oil Rush is
underway.
Date: March 25, 2008
A
deadly new Arctic Oil Rush is underway.
And lethal oil spills are sure to follow -- killing polar bears and
other wildlife that get in the way.
We can't afford to wait for disturbing photos of polar bears
covered in oil before taking action -- especially since these
imperiled bears are already on the brink of extinction from global
warming.
Say
NO to Deadly Oil
Even
a small amount of oil from a spill can kill polar bears and their
cubs as they lick the toxic poison off their
fur.
Help NRDC go to court
to stop Big Oil's invasion of polar bear habitat.
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Please make a special
emergency donation to NRDC today, so that
we can take the Bush Administration to court immediately and block
its plan for dangerous oil drilling in the heart of polar bear
habitat.
Here's what's at stake:
Last month, in the biggest oil and gas sale in Alaska's
history,
the Bush Administration sold a vast expanse of the Chukchi Sea --
home to half our nation's polar bears -- to Shell and other
oil giants.
Yet the Administration is still dragging its feet on protecting
polar bears under the Endangered Species Act!
Coincidence? We don't think so.
It's part of a relentless drive by Big Oil and the Bush
Administration to push through drilling in both of Alaska's Polar
Bear Seas -- the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea --
before the bear is safeguarded
by federal law.
There is still time to block this potentially deadly
drilling.
Your
gift will allow NRDC to take
the Bush Administration to federal court and cancel these new and
hazardous Chukchi oil leases --
before drilling begins and oil
spills blanket the ice floes.
Even
the Bush Administration's own scientists estimate there's more than
a 50 percent chance of a large oil spill in the Chukchi Sea.
And if polar bears come into contact with that oil,
there's almost 100 percent certainty they will be poisoned and
die.
That's why we need your most generous help to fight back in court.
Thanks to your past support, NRDC stopped Shell from drilling off
the coast of the Arctic Refuge last summer.
We can do it again. All we need is your help.
Please help us win this fight to save
Alaska's imperiled polar bears from this deadly new danger. Don't
let them be poisoned for the sake of Big Oil's bottom line.
Let's stop the drilling before it starts.
Sincerely,
Frances
Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
