Tell Congress: Reject Big Oil Exploitation of Ukraine Crisis

From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org):

It took but a day for the oil and gas industry and its allies to begin exploiting Vladimir Putin’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine for its own gain. And Alaska’s wild lands and waters have been one of its primary targets in the fevered push for more climate-busting, domestic oil and gas drilling.

Send a message today at https://secure.alaskawild.org/a/ukraine and tell Congress that you’re not buying oil propaganda and they shouldn’t either.

This is a security emergency. And it’s a humanitarian emergency.

But in early March, Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan was one of 23 Republican senators to sign a letter to President Biden urging more development of petroleum and mineral projects, including a commitment to fast-tracking energy production on federal lands like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, and expediting the permitting of critical minerals mining and processing and the infrastructure needed to get to them, particularly Alaska’s Ambler Road project — and all under the guise of supporting Ukraine.

In reality, demanding new oil and gas drilling in places like the Arctic Refuge and Western Arctic is like planting coffee seeds to get your next caffeine fix. Oil from massive new drilling projects won’t be produced quickly enough to impact the current crisis in Ukraine, and in the long run it will only continue our addiction to oil into the foreseeable future. We need immediate investment in clean, renewable energy solutions instead of prioritizing projects that will keep us dependent on this volatile resource long into the future.

Tell Congress not to exploit the suffering and destruction of Ukraine for oil industry profits. More drilling, pipelines and fossil fuels won’t help the people of Ukraine. Congress should reject oil industry manipulation and kick our country’s oil addiction habit for good.
P.S. According to the Center for American Progress: “The opportunities that exist for big new oil projects are not fast, not safe, and are not long-term solutions. Projects such as ConocoPhillips’ Willow in the Western Arctic; calls to drill the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; or ultradeep offshore drilling are several years if not a decade away from producing oil and only set the country up to continue on the unstable path of a fossil-fuel-dependent future.” Send a message today.