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Arctic Refuge Threatened by New Drilling Proposal

Please tell your Senators that oil and gas development has no place in the Arctic Refuge's coastal plain. Tell them to say "No" to S. 503 or any other bill brought before the Senate that would open the Arctic Refuge to oil and gas development. Tell them that we should focus on developing clean, renewable, and sustainable energy sources to meet our country's energy needs.

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Members of Alaska's congressional delegation have introduced a bill, S. 503, that would open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to "directional" oil and gas drilling.

The bill's sponsors claim that their approach won't harm the refuge, and that there will be "no trace that we were ever there." In truth, however, the impacts on the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge will be visible, and they will be irreversible. S. 503 is nothing more than a thinly disguised attempt to give the oil industry what it has wanted for decades: access to refuge lands that should, instead, be protected as wilderness. This dangerous bill must not be allowed to move forward in the Senate.

As your constituent, I am writing to urge you to reject S. 503 if it comes up for a vote. By allowing destructive seismic testing and exploratory drilling, and by mandating lease sales within the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge, S. 503 is no different than all the other refuge drilling bills that have come before.

S. 503 is just another distraction from the real conversation we should be having--a conversation about breaking our addiction to fossil fuels and moving toward renewable energy and conservation.

No matter how you dress it up, directional drilling is still drilling. Oil development is risky and it is dirty, and it will irreparably harm the refuge while doing nothing to move us toward a clean energy future. Please reject S. 503 and any other bill that would open the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge to the oil industry.

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