"Drill, baby, drill,"??? No We Refuse!!!

The American government is about to lease more than 73 million acres of vulnerable Arctic waters for the kind of oil and gas development that destroys animal habitat and disrupts Native Alaskan communities. Amid cries of "Drill, baby, drill," this leasing scheme was rushed through late last year with almost no consideration of its devastating potential impacts.

The time is now to end what Bush began! A few years of oil and gas is not worth the trade for the lifetime loss of polar bears, endangered bowhead whales, beluga whales, walrus, seals, migratory birds and other creatures. And for that matter, it is not fair to Native Alaskans.

Furthermore, why would we pile on the inevitable harms associated with industrial oil and gas development, particularly when we have no way to clean a major oil spill from such icy areas?

Remind decision makers that global warming has already hurt this remarkable region more than any other place on earth! Tell the Obama administration today: Stop the "Polar Bear Seas" lease sales and keep the drillers out of our Arctic seas.