From Friends of the Earth <[email protected]>
Subject Sign The Petition: Polar bears are being crushed alive by Big Oil’s Arctic drilling machines
Date August 1, 2023 1:39 AM
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[[link removed]]URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Big Oil’s drilling machines are running over and killing
mama polar bears and cubs in their dens — and even burying them alive under
snow! Take urgent action now! >>
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Friend, the oil and gas industry is destroying the Arctic
with out of control drilling and fracking. The region is already warming 2x as fast as the rest of the Earth, and the precious wildlife there is suffering the
worst impacts of human-driven climate change.

Walruses and polar bears are watching their ice habitat melt away so rapidly
that experts believe the entire Arctic region could be ice-free by the year
within the next 31 years!

And while these animals are clinging to survival, the fossil fuel industry
continues to exploit the Arctic for profit. Drilling and fracking is not only
terrible for the environment and increasing the rate of global warming, but it’s
bringing in massive amounts of pollutants to the area and putting vulnerable
polar bears at risk of being run over or buried by snow by giant drilling
machines.

If we’re going to STOP the fossil fuel industry from decimating what’s left of the Arctic and defend the voiceless wildlife — like walruses and polar bears — who call
the region home, we need to demand accountability NOW. Will you take urgent action today by adding your name to our petition calling
for an END to increase oil and gas activity in the Arctic?
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SIGN THE PETITION
[[link removed]]There are currently laws in place that require Big Oil to avoid known polar bear
denning sites by at least one mile when drilling in the Arctic. But recent
studies have shown MAJOR ERRORS in the accuracy of the technology that’s used to detect these dens — where mama
polar bears and cubs often burrow well beneath the snow’s surface.

The failure to properly detect denning sites puts innocent polar bears inside
their dens at HIGH RISK of being RUN OVER and KILLED by industrial-sized drilling machines — and even being BURIED ALIVE under mounds of snow, CRUSHING these helpless animals to death.

The Biden administration has recently approved a rule that permits even MORE oil
and drilling activity in the Arctic despite the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
(FWS) findings that this increase has a 95% probability of resulting in SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH to Southern Beaufort polar bears who live there. With only 900 of these iconic bears remaining, these endangered mammals are the most
imperiled polar bear population in the WORLD.

FWS has the authority to REJECT the new administrative rule and say NO to
increased Big Oil harassment of harmless polar bears in the Arctic. But the
agency isn’t going to act unless we demonstrate strong public support from
environmentalists like you, so we’re asking for your urgent help today,
Friend. Helpless polar bears desperately need us to speak up for them before they are WIPED OUT by Big Oil’s reckless drilling and fracking. Please help us get 3,921 more signatures by MIDNIGHT to help SAVE endangered polar bears from Big Oil’s corporate greed. Sign the petition and share with other activists NOW! >>
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SIGN THE PETITION
[[link removed]]Standing with you,
Marcie Keever
Oceans and Vessels Program Director,
Friends of the Earth

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