Yesterday TWO big things happened that prove why we need to ban all new off shore oil drilling and a plan to #KeepItInTheGulf:
- An accident at an underwater pipe system connecting four oil wells in the Gulf created a huge oil slick reported to be almost 90,000 gallons. The pipelines in question are owned by Shell, and are only 50 miles farther from the shore than than the BP Disaster.
- President Obama's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held a hearing in New Orleans on their plan to sell off 92.2 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling. Our friends showed up in force, some of them carrying tarballs found on Gulf beacheswithin the last few weeks. They also brought more than 20,000 comments from Environmental Action members like you who've signed on to say that tapping the eighth-largest carbon reserve on Earth would be a disaster for our climate and increase the chances of another oil spill.
Follow the instructions below to write a letter yo the editor of your local paper about this news to make sure they know that we can't afford more offshore oil drilling.
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