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Patagonia recently launched a campaign urging President Biden to protect three ecologically sensitive areas of the Alaskan Arctic from drilling and mining. The areas include the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), and the Brooks Range.
The campaign is urging individuals to submit public comments calling for increased protections for the three areas. Patagonia is encouraging the public to oppose the Ambler Road Project in the Brooks Range, which is a proposed 211-mile road intended to facilitate open-pit copper mining and transportation. For the NPR-A and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Patagonia is calling on the public to submit comments opposing future oil and gas leasing to protect biological and ecological values in these areas.
Protecting the three areas from extractive industries would help the Biden administration make progress toward its goals of achieving a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
“My sense is the Biden administration recognizes the opportunity they have here,” said Corley Kenna, a spokeswoman for Patagonia, in an interview with The Washington Post. “But we want to be helpful in getting a really broad coalition to support these protections.”
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There's not enough money on the planet to compensate for what's happened here.”
