Dear NRDC Activist,

We’ve just learned of a devastating new development: Oil giant ConocoPhillips intends to explore for oil and gas on nearly 230,000 acres of unspoiled Arctic tundra next to the climate-busting Willow Project.

This is exactly what we feared.

Willow was seemingly never the end game for ConocoPhillips. With expanded exploration, Willow could likely be used as a launching pad for even more drilling across the Arctic.

Now, the company’s disastrous proposal is in the hands of the Bureau of Land Management — and the agency is inviting public comments on this climate-wrecking plan.

Tell the Bureau of Land Management to do the right thing and reject ConocoPhillips’ proposal to expand their Arctic operations to explore for oil and gas next to Willow.

The agency is only accepting comments until December 8, so we’ve got no time to lose. Will you submit a comment today to help stop ConocoPhillips’ brazen new oil and gas exploration plan?

If the plan is approved, heavy-duty machinery will invade even more of the irreplaceable Arctic wilderness.

Gigantic thumper trucks will exacerbate the effects of climate change and permanently harm the sensitive Arctic permafrost. The trucks could also severely impact polar bear dens and stamp seismic tracks in the land so large they can be seen from space.

A federal judge recently ruled that ConocoPhillips can proceed with its climate-destroying Willow oil drilling project in the Arctic in response to a lawsuit that NRDC and our partners brought earlier this year. We immediately filed an appeal — but while we’re fighting in court, we must do everything else we can to block even more oil and gas exploration and drilling in the region.

We must continue to fight back! Help stop ConocoPhillips’ wildly reckless plan to expand their Arctic oil drilling operations — write a comment by December 8.

With scientists calling 2023 the hottest year on record before it’s even over, and the Arctic warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet, we cannot allow ConocoPhillips to further expand new drilling in the Arctic. The Willow Project alone could generate as much carbon pollution as adding nearly 2 million gas-burning cars to our roads for the next 30 years.

We must stop Willow and all plans for further fossil fuel expansion in the fragile Arctic.

Our fight for the planet’s future against ConocoPhillips is only as strong as the community behind it. I can’t thank you enough for doing your part to help.

Sincerely,

Bobby McEnaney
Director, Dirty Energy Project, Nature Program, NRDC