TIME’S RUNNING OUT! Tell your senators to protect our oceans and coasts, not open them up to offshore drilling!

May 18, 2011 by  | Bio |  3 Comment »

Another important Senate vote comes today around 2:30ish when the pro-drilling bill S.953, introduced by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is scheduled to be voted on. This bill hides behind a fig leaf of a drilling ”safety improvement” by requiring a spill response plan, but it really seeks to increase drilling by requiring leasing off the coast of Virginia and in the Arctic and setting a deadline that all proposed leases have to be decided in 60 days. McConnell’s bill also restricts court access for an legal action against a drilling operation. Is the oil industry really in need of legislation that limits court access away from the public’s interest? Isn’t the playing field already more than a bit skewed in favor of the industry that seems to create a new lobbying PAC each year?

TAKE ACTION NOW!

- SEND AN E-MAIL to your senators via CLF’s action alert and tell them to vote to protect our oceans and coasts, not open them up to oil drilling.

- CALL your senators through the US Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and urge them to oppose the McConnell dirty drilling bill.

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Posted in: Action Alerts, Clean Energy & Climate Change, Ocean Conservation

3 Responses to “TIME’S RUNNING OUT! Tell your senators to protect our oceans and coasts, not open them up to offshore drilling!”

  1. Peter Baker

    May 18, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    Go CLF- no drilling on Georges Bank!

  2. Sean

    May 18, 2011 at 5:42 pm

    Thanks Peter! We’ll tell them where they can put their oil rigs – and it won’t be on Georges Bank or anywhere in the Gulf of Maine!

  3. Debra Mahony

    May 22, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    ONLY Clean Energy from now on~
    Don’t you people have children of your own that you care about????