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Action Alert – Proposed Oil Drilling In Alaska

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Heads up for anyone interested!  Just got this in.  Please read, take appropriate actions, and forward. Thank You! Many Blessings, Tegan  :) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – We hope you’ll join our urgent campaign to stop an environmental outrage our president has made a top priority. In a deeply cynical maneuver, President Bush is citing California’s short-term energy crisis in an effort to push through approval of long-term oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the nation’s most important and fragile wildlife breeding zones. It is up to everyone who cares about our environment to step forward and take action on this crucial issue. http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?ItemId=1244 Tell our senators they must protect this national treasure! By using the link above you can take action right now from your computer in just a few quick clicks. Simply click the link, or copy and paste it into your browser. The oil industry has long campaigned for the rights to drill in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with potentially devastating consequences for the region’s fragile habitat, native communities and unparalleled wildlife. The 1.6 million-acre coastal plain of the refuge is the United States’ premier birthing and nursing ground for arctic wildlife, including grizzly and polar bears, musk oxen, the arctic fox, wolves and wolverines, 135 bird species, and a migrating herd of caribou which supports thousands of native people still living in harmony with this rugged land.   "The Arctic Refuge is a unique environmental cathedral — a 19-million-acre expanse where mountains meet ocean, where grizzly bears meet polar bears, where 130,000 caribou migrate each spring to give birth on the coastal plain, where an entire ecosystem is preserved and where Mother Nature is totally in charge," wrote journalist Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times (3/2/01). "This is not Yellowstone Park, with campsites and R.V.’s. The original idea behind the Refuge’s creation was to save an area of pure wilderness, in which there would be no maps, virtually no roads and no development. When the Bush team says it can drill in such wilderness without harming it, it’s like saying you can do online trading in church on your Palm Pilot without disturbing anyone. It violates the very ethic of the place." And the arguments Bush and his oil cronies make for drilling this cathedral just don’t hold up: CLEAN, UNOBTRUSIVE DRILLING? An average of 409 spills have occurred annually on Alaska’s North Slope since 1996, while operations produce tons of nitrogen oxides, which cause smog and acid rain, and large amounts of sewage, garbage and scrap metal. The drilling sites in the Arctic Refuge would be strewn throughout the delicate coastal plain, linked by pipelines and roads. ENERGY FOR THE FUTURE? The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the oil that could be extracted would fuel the U.S. market for less than six months. Consider that increasing fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles to an average of 39 miles per gallon over the next decade would save 51 billion barrels of oil over the next 50 years — more than 15 times the likely yield from the Arctic Refuge! LOWER GAS PRICES? The oil market is global, and oil from the Arctic Refuge would expand global oil reserves by just 0.3 percent — a quantity far too inconsequential to affect prices at the pump or elsewhere. CALIFORNIA POWER CRISIS SOLUTION? Drilling in the coastal plain would have no impact on California’s electricity problems or any other state’s electricity problems. Most U.S. electric power plants do not use oil. Less than 1 percent of California’s electricity is generated by burning oil, and the average for the United States as a whole is only 3 percent. Besides, no oil from the Refuge would flow to refineries for at least a decade. Despite all this, Alaska’s Congressional delegation continues to push for oil development in this fragile corner of the Arctic, which will fill the state’s coffers with oil drilling royalties. On Feb. 26, Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced a sweeping piece of energy policy legislation that would allow Arctic Refuge drilling, while also weakening nationwide power plant standards designed to fight global warming. Please stand with us as we fight this attempt to ravage one of the last truly wild landscapes in the United States. To take action, simply click on the link below or copy and paste it into your browser. http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?ItemId=1244 There is strength in numbers!  So once you take action, please forward this e-mail to friends and associates so they can speak out, too. You can also take action on these and many other crucial, timely actions at ActForChange: End Use of Human Antibiotics in Livestock Feed http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=1075 Tell Ford to Offer Environment-friendly Cars http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=4452 Ban Special Interest Money in Elections http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=10601 And, if after taking action, you want to do even more to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, go to http://www.giveforchange.com and make a donation to Defenders of Wildlife or Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) who are working on protecting this natural resource. Or you can donate to the Sierra Club through the link below. Sierra Club (Donate now and get a free expedition pack!) http://www.workingforchange.com/shop/vendorgo.cfm?PageID=154 With appreciation, Michael Kieschnick President, Working Assets

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I see you’re still fomenting idiocy, batboy. You should form the Church of Idiots and you could be it’s high priest. hehehehehehe We all knew this was coming. The truth is there is no energy crisis in California. Those price hikes were artificially created so that Bush would have an excuse to exploit Alaska. We have an evil President. He is a dishonest President and he will steal our freedom if we don’t keep a close watch on his activities. Don’t underestimate Bush. He may act like a moron but there are powerful people doing clever and tricky things and he is aware of that and letting them. He knows full well what he needs to do to push his agenda through. He will cheat.

Gargoyle – The Living Ghost =;)-~~~`~` Weirdness Is Good Thing! hehehehe

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That is wonderful Leelly! Its a great thing reelly that both you and Teeg keep up on these things and inform us.Yes, sarcasm for the spelling of Tegan..not on the cause though.

Actually, I was under the impression that her name was pronounced with a long e sound, so I didn’t want to write Teg (rhymes with peg, leg, nutmeg, etc). Im for any of you who stay on top of these things.Kudo’s to you both. Dont mean to burst your bubble here but the White House tends to bulk e-mail and hand write mail from their staff with the Presidential seal and sig.

I know that the responses were bullshit, but I’m hoping that if they get "elevendy million" of them that it might do some small amount of good. I have several as do members of my family. Its an honor to get recognized but unfortunately doesnt mean they really do much.That will take continued effort by people such as yourself and Teeg!

I don’t think it is an honor to get recognized by those assholes, and frankly, I take my honor in being a thorn in their sides… ~Lilly — Anek Khepera… Ankh OodJa Seneb!

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The 2 responses I got from the white house were ridiculous at best, but it’s a start! ~Lilly – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Thank you Lilly and Caliban.  I just got this in my e-mail which is why I forwarded to the ng.  I didn’t see your previous post as my computer was down for a while.  "Act For Change" is a different activism organization. Same cause, though *slightly* louder voices.  It all makes a difference though.  I also sent the e-mail from your website below.  Thanks! Many Blessings, Tegan  :) Teeg, I posted this on deja a month or so ago, and got great results. Have you sent the email yet from this link??? I got 2 emials back from the white house even, lucky me… Newsgroups: alt.religion.wicca View complete thread I thought some of you might want to stop by this site and sign this petition for the arctic… if not… c’est la vie! http://www.savearcticrefuge.org ~Lilly — Anek Khepera… Ankh OodJa Seneb! —–= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =—– http://www.newsfeeds.com – The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! —–==  Over 80,000 Newsgroups – 16 Different Servers! =—–

– Anek Khepera… Ankh OodJa Seneb!

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We all knew this was coming. The truth is there is no energy crisis in California. Those price hikes were artificially created so that Bush would have an excuse to exploit Alaska. We have an evil President. He is a dishonest President and he will steal our freedom if we don’t keep a close watch on his activities. Don’t underestimate Bush. He may act like a moron but there are powerful people doing clever and tricky things and he is aware of that and letting them. He knows full well what he needs to do to push his agenda through. He will cheat.

Well said, Ren. Here’s an article I posted to sci.environment that you might find informative.  I think it was originally in the SF Bay Guardian: Energy wars and the fate of the planet CRISES ARE OPPORTUNITIES , platforms on which futures are built. This week’s cover package gives you the real story behind the deregulation fiasco

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