Keep Big Oil out of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge!

The Trump Administration and Republican led Congress opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling. With your help, we can reverse course before it’s too late. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last unspoiled places on earth. But if Big Oil gets its way, its snowcapped mountains and coastal tundras will be irreversibly damaged. Wolves and polar bears will be pushed away from their dens -- making it harder to survive.

Will you help keep Big Oil away from this iconic landscape and its wildlife?

Dear Member of Congress,

I urge you to restore protections for the Arctic Refuge through the reconciliation process. By restoring protections to the coastal plain, you would be siding with the vast majority of the American public who oppose oil and gas drilling in one of America’s greatest remaining wild places. Congress must take action to prevent the shortsighted destruction of this treasured wildlife refuge.

The reconciliation process was used in 2017 to open the Refuge to drilling. The fallacy of that decision was revealed in the dismal lease sales held in January 2021. Pro-drilling advocates claimed oil and gas leasing in the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge would provide a $1 billion offset to the 2017 Tax Act. A complete financial failure, the lease sale only raised approximately $6 million for the U.S. Treasury, less than 1% of the $1 billion in revenue promised to American taxpayers. The lease sale also failed to receive industry interest, with only half of the tracts receiving bids, no major oil companies bidding, and the state of Alaska placing nearly all of the winning bids. Alaska is considered one of the most expensive sources of oil in the United States to produce, and with the six largest U.S. banks and two dozen international banks adopting policies to preclude financing for Arctic oil and gas development, it is no wonder companies are not interested in drilling in the Arctic Refuge

Restoring protections for the Arctic refuge through reconciliation is the right thing to do. The Gwich’in people call the coastal plain “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins” and have relied for thousands of years on the Porcupine caribou that use it as their calving and nursery grounds. Oil and gas development threatens to alter caribou migration and destroy the coastal plain’s natural values, risking the way of life of the Gwich’in and other Indigenous peoples who rely on those values. Considered the biological heart of the Arctic Refuge, the coastal plain also provides critical denning habitat for the threatened Southern Beaufort Sea population of polar bears and nesting grounds for millions of migratory birds. As the most critical part of the Arctic Refuge’s delicate ecosystem, the coastal plain is a perfect example of a place that should be off-limits to oil drilling and industrial development.

Please take this opportunity to protect the Arctic Refuge before it’s too late.

Sincerely,
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