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From:
Keren Murphy <
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Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Subject: ocs--update
To:
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Arctic and OCS Action Day: July
8----Update
Keren O'Brien Murphy
On Tuesday, July 8, concerned citizens
across the country welcomed Congress back from its July Fourth recess with
calls to their Representatives urging them not to open the coastal plain
of the Arctic Refuge or protected coasts to offshore drilling. We
will have the approximate final number of calls made to offices tomorrow
Environmental groups, including
Sierra Club, circulated alerts to their arctic and OCS activists asking
them to call their members of congress. We ran a similar alert nationally
asking people to take action and tell their member of congress to oppose
any attempts to open the arctic or protected coasts to drilling. This
alert is featured on Sierra Club's website, facebook page, Facebook Action
Center and ran in this weeks Currents.
The national alert can be found
here: https://secure2.convio.net/sierra/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr009=i2adahp8o7.app27a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=867
Attached is the alert that was
circulated to Arctic activists.
Also on July 8th, lobbyists
from Sierra Club, Alaska Wilderness League, Audubon Society, Earth Justice,
Defenders of Wildlife and Environment America hit the hill. Making
lobby visits to targeted offices with the message that we need real solutions,
not drilling. Specifically asking them to oppose efforts to drill
in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, lift the offshore drilling moratorium
and lift the moratorium on new oil shale development.
Context:
This week the Interior Appropriations
Committee has tentatively scheduled a mark up of the Interior Appropriations
Bill. Once again we are expecting a slew of drilling amendments; Peterson's
offshore drilling amendment being the most famous. However, we are
hearing that the bill will be delayed for the immediate future due in part
to these drilling amendments.