[sustran] EMBARQ Greenwash Alert - Keep Shell out of the Arctic!

[Todd Edelman]

The following message is from Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural 
Resources Defense Council <http://www.nrdconline.org/> (NRDC). (Ms. 
Beinecke and NRDC are not calling the partnership 
<http://www.embarq.org/en/about/global-strategic-partners> of Shell and 
EMBARQ greenwash... I am. )

She is asking for support from U.S. citizens and internationals 
<https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=2490> 
in telling the U.S. Interior Secretary to reject Shell's outdated oil 
spill response plan and block that company's final permits for drilling 
near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.


Thanks,
Todd Edelman

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"The fragile habitat of imperiled Arctic wildlife is no place for oil 
drilling. But unless we act swiftly, the Shell oil company could soon be 
doing just that.

The Obama Administration just gave Shell the tentative go-ahead to begin 
exploring for oil off the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 
next summer.

Send a message to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar telling him to reverse 
his decision and deny Shell the final permits it needs to begin drilling.

The Arctic Refuge is the main birthing ground for polar bears in Alaska. 
Its coastal waters are also home to Pacific walruses, gray whales, 
endangered bowhead whales, beluga whales, ringed seals and millions of 
migratory birds.

If we don't stop Shell now, it could be sinking its first drill bit into 
the Beaufort Sea just months before pregnant polar bears move onshore 
nearby to dig their dens and birth their cubs.

A blowout at one of Shell's rigs would be devastating. An oil spill 
offshore would blanket the coast of the Arctic Refuge with an 
irremovable layer of thick toxic oil for generations to come.

Oil-covered polar bears have virtually no chance of survival ... whales 
would be suffocated or poisoned ... hundreds of thousands of birds would 
be killed ... and seal populations would be severely impacted.

What's more, Shell is relying on an oil spill response plan that was 
written -- and approved by the Obama Administration -- BEFORE the 
catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Send a message to Secretary Salazar right now. Tell him to throw out 
Shell's outdated oil response plan and stop Shell before it's too late 
for the Arctic Refuge and its vulnerable wildlife.

Shell's response plan is a fantasy. lt assumes that more than 95 percent 
of spilled oil will be recovered before it hits shore. Only five percent 
of the oil unleashed by BP in the Gulf was ever captured!

The Obama Administration is under tremendous pressure from Big Oil to 
allow drilling in the Arctic. So Secretary Salazar is unlikely to say No 
to Shell unless he hears a massive public outcry!

He needs to hear immediately from hundreds of thousands of people like 
you -- people who refuse to place the fate of America's polar bears and 
other wildlife in the hands of Shell oil.

Please send a message to Secretary Salazar right now. Tell him to stop 
Shell from drilling anywhere near the Arctic Refuge and preserve the 
irreplaceable habitat of Arctic wildlife."

-- 
Todd Edelman
Green Idea Factory / SLOWFactory

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