Please Urge the Obama Administration to Stand Up for Polar Bears: Two quick petitions

Immediate, please click on and sign/send the following two automatic messages, thank you.  (Please note that these may only be open to US friends.)

1. Urge the Obama Administration to Stand Up for Polar Bears

2. Protect Arctic Polar Bears, Walruses, and Seals from Offshore Drilling

Backgrounds from Defenders of Wildlife & Oceana

Planned drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea threatens polar bears, endangered bowhead whales and other wildlife. Yet, the Obama Administration now seems poised to green-light drilling in the Chukchi without the most basic of information about its effects.

There is still no effective, proven technology to clean up oil spills in broken sea ice conditions in Arctic waters, such as those found in the Chukchi Sea… a problem that could doom bowhead whales, threatened polar bears and other wildlife if drilling proceeds.

Urge President Obama’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to delay drilling in the Chukchi until sound science can determine its safety for wildlife.

You Can’t Rewind An Oil Spill

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Frozen Arctic seas. Subzero temperatures. Massive waves. Over 1,000 miles away from the closest Coast Guard response center.

These harsh conditions that people would find inhospitable are what make the Chukchi Sea perfect for polar bears, whales, walruses, seals, and other Arctic marine animals that call it home. These same conditions are also a recipe for disaster in the inevitable event of an offshore drilling accident.

The government is saying they have spent enough money on scientific research in the Chukchi Sea. But there are still large scientific gaps on how offshore oil and gas development will impact the environment and the animals and indigenous communities that rely on a healthy Arctic Ocean.

The US government needs to hear from you by November 30: a lack of scientific information, combined with treacherous, Arctic conditions, spells disaster in the event of an oil spill.

Please remember to sign the following two automatic messages, thank you:

1. Urge the Obama Administration to Stand Up for Polar Bears

2. Protect Arctic Polar Bears, Walruses, and Seals from Offshore Drilling

Polar Bears in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge