Dear John,
Our public lands and wildlife are under attack! The Trump Administration is turning our pristine landscapes into greenhouse gas production pits -- and the sagebrush, home to the threatened sage-grouse, could be next.
Instead of seeing beautiful plants and rare wildlife, our national parks and lands could be filled with drilling rigs, the smell of oil, and even other, more toxic drilling byproducts like coal ash.
Soon, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to offer thousands of acres of the iconic sage-brush in Northern Colorado for new drilling. We can still protect Colorado’s public lands and wildlife. But we need your help!
Tell the BLM to protect vulnerable sage-grouse habitats from Big Oil drilling!
If the BLM leases these areas in Colorado for oil and gas development, it could destroy important nesting grounds for the sage-grouse. Fossil fuel extraction would pollute our air and water and endanger our delicate ecosystems. And it would also damage important migration corridors for elk and pronghorn.
Moreover, the fracking techniques used in Big Oil and Gas projects will be devasting to the health of local communities. Extracted fracking wastewater can be radioactive, and its disposal through injection wells has been proven to increase earthquakes.
We need the BLM to put our wildlife and communities ahead of Big Oil’s profits.
Sign your name: Tell the BLM to take action for the climate and protect vulnerable wildlife!
In short, the BLM’s proposed leases will pose a safety and health threat to the people who live on the surrounding land, and could damage some of the best remaining habitats for iconic wildlife species, like sage-grouse.
We can’t let Big Oil destroy these ecologically rich landscapes just so it can increase its profits.
Now we need your help demanding the BLM to halt this disastrous project in its tracks. If we don’t, these wild places will never be the same.
Help send 30,000 comments to the BLM: Tell the agency to protect threatened wildlife and cancel this lease sale now!
Standing with you,
Nicole Ghio,
Senior fossil fuels program manager,
Friends of the Earth
