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Greenpeace: Obama must shelve Arctic drilling plans, call for offshore moratorium

WASHINGTON – Following the announcement by President Obama that there will be no expansion of offshore drilling until investigations into the BP Deepwater Disaster are complete, Greenpeace Executive Director, Philip Radford made the following statement:

“The President’s announcement today, while a welcome first step, does not go nearly far enough. The only way to prevent human, economic and environmental tragedies like the BP Deepwater Disaster is to re-enact the moratorium on offshore drilling and to replace dirty dangerous fuels with clean energy.

On April 2nd, President Obama said: “It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.” Days later, the BP Deepwater Spill began.

One of the President’s first steps to start making the shift to clean energy should be to require that all new cars are manufactured with existing plug-in technologies that run at 100 miles per gallon by 2015. In addition, President Obama should shelve the plans to allow Shell to drill in the Arctic this summer. The Coast Guard calls a spill in the Arctic a ‘nightmare scenario’ due to the difficulties in cleaning spills in the Arctic. If we cannot handle a spill in the Gulf of Mexico, imagine the impact even a small spill could have in the remote, pristine waters of the Arctic.

72 Hours for Clean American Energy!
Please Call Your Senators Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday

Rising sea levels. Stronger storms. Melting ice caps. Less wildlife.
Birds shifting their ranges–if they can.
This doesn’t have to be our future–or our legacy.

With leadership from the Senate, we can change our future. Please call your Senators today.

Join with dozens of organizations and millions of Americans calling on the U.S. Senate to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation this year.

Here is how you can call your Senators in three easy steps.

1. Call 877-9REPOWER (877-973-7693). You will be prompted to enter your zip code. A message will remind you to give your name, your address and your message. Then it will connect you with your Senator’s office. In most cases, it will connect you to the Senate office where phone calls are most important.**

2. Give your name and hometown to whomever answers the phone.

3. Let them know you want Senator ______ to support comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation NOW.

That’s it! You’re done. Answering the next few questions is important too, and will let us know how many calls we were able to generate.

Here are some additional talking points if you care to use them.

We are sending $1 billion a day overseas for foreign oil. This is money that could be better spent creating jobs and clean energy here at home. (Center for American Progress, Securing America’s Future, August 2009)
Americans need jobs and moving to a clean energy economy will help create millions of jobs and jump start our economy.
Our dependance on foreign oil puts our country at risk and our military forces in harms way. The Pentagon sees climate change as a security threat (New York Times, August 8, 2009).
The time for stalling is over and I instead look to the Senate for leadership. It is vital to our children and their future.

THANK YOU! Your efforts will make this 72 hours of action a huge success!

** If you wish to call your other senate office, you can do so through the Capitol Switchboard, 202-224-3121.