Sign the petition re: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Add your name to stop oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Sign the petition demanding the Department of Interior protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from drilling.

Dear MoveOn member,

America's largest remaining stretch of pristine wilderness—the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska—could very soon be under siege by the oil and gas industry.

The Trump administration has finalized its plan to open up the refuge to drilling for oil and gas for the first time.¹ The Interior Department announced it will now begin preparations to auction off drilling leases. The first lease to drill could be sold by the end of 2020.²

The Arctic and its rare wildlife are already facing existential threats from the climate crisis. Handing this pristine wilderness to the fossil fuel industry will only accelerate the climate emergency and wildlife extinction crisis.

And it is unacceptable that in pursuit of profit, the land that is home to Indigenous communities in Northern Alaska, who not only consider the region sacred but also depend upon the local ecosystem for their subsistence living, will be irreparably damaged. 

There's no time to waste. Add your signature now to demand the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge be protected from drilling.

If Big Oil is allowed to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, this wild landscape, precious to the people and the wildlife that depend upon it, will be forever scarred. And once drilling rights are sold, it will be difficult to reverse course.

Sign this petition to urge Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The climate crisis continues to ravage communities and wildlife habitats across the globe, and at the current rate, the Arctic could be without ice in the summer by 2040.³ Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling will worsen both the climate and wildlife extinction crises. Burning the recoverable oil estimated in the refuge could result in more than 4.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution.⁴

We should be acting to protect what little's left of our pristine land, not helping the fossil fuel industry continue to wreak havoc on Earth's climate, indigenous communities, and wildlife.

Will you call on the Department of the Interior and its secretary, David Bernhardt, to immediately halt the sales of drilling leases in the refuge? Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Miranda D., Center for Biological Diversity

Sources:

1. "Trump Administration Moves Closer To Allowing Oil Drilling In Arctic Refuge," NPR, August 17, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/142027?t=11&akid=272124%2E10220574%2E4BxrgE

2. Ibid.

3. "The Arctic is now expected to be ice-free by 2040," World Economic Forum, May 17, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/142028?t=13&akid=272124%2E10220574%2E4BxrgE

4. "Trump's Energy Policies Put Alaska in the Climate Crosshairs," Center for American Progress, November 20, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/142029?t=15&akid=272124%2E10220574%2E4BxrgE

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