URGENT TAKE ACTION: Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!

04/28/2005

It’s make or break for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

Congress is poised to vote on a final Federal Budget Resolution which could include a controversial provision to open the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling.

Proponents of opening the Refuge to drilling could insert an assumption of
revenues from lease sales in the Arctic in the Budget Resolution—a
tactic that limits debate and amendment.  Our lawmakers should not use the
budget process to allow oil drilling in one of our nation’s last great
wilderness areas. The speculative revenue gains are too small and the
sacrifice too great.

***The vote on the budget will likely be this THURSDAY (4/28), so call
your congressman TODAY***

Tell your Representatives and Senators to VOTE AGAINST A BUDGET THAT
INCLUDES ARCTIC REFUGE DRILLING!!!

Call the Arctic Action Hotline, 1-888-8-WILDAK (1-888-894-5325) to be
connected directly to your members of Congress.

For additional information check out the Sierra Club web page: 
http://www.sierraclub.org. 

Please forward this to others who will call…
Thank you for your work!!

-Heidi Granstrom