Tell 88 Energy—Don’t Drill in the Arctic

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

Oil and gas drilling doesn’t belong in the Arctic.

Yet Australian oil company 88 Energy is once again trying to drill at the doorstep of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Gates of the Arctic National Park.

And this time the company found oil — potentially 1.6 billion barrels of it.¹

The Arctic should be a safe haven for the rare and wondrous wildlife that call it home. Tell 88 Energy not to drill in the Arctic at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=47063.

From polar bears to caribou to snowy owls, the Arctic is full of unique creatures perfectly adapted for the untouched tundra.² When oil companies move in, oil spills and toxic human impacts put the fragile Arctic ecosystem in grave danger.

88 Energy’s new discovery could be one of the largest sources of recoverable oil, but extracting oil from this remote location would require huge amounts of habitat destruction.³

If 88 Energy drills in this new remote location, it could open the doors to even more drilling further into the immaculate wilds of the Arctic.

The Arctic needs your help — add your name to help stop 88 Energy from drilling in the Arctic.

Scientists just published a new study that found 60% of oil and natural gas must remain unextracted in order for the world to have half a shot at stopping climate change.⁴

We shouldn’t be sacrificing pristine natural land to dirty oil drilling.

PennEnvironment has worked to keep drilling out of the Arctic in the past — and we’ve won — but we need your help to keep protecting this special place.

Protect the Arctic’s precious wildlife by telling 88 Energy to stay out of the Arctic.

Thank you for taking action.

1. Elwood Brehmer, “Analysis suggests another billion-barrel North Slope prospect,” Alaska Journal of Commerce, August 24, 2021.
2. “Wildlife of the Arctic,” National Park Service, last accessed September 9, 2021.
3. Elwood Brehmer, “Analysis suggests another billion-barrel North Slope prospect,” Alaska Journal of Commerce, August 24, 2021.
4. Dan Welsby, James Price, Steve Pye and Paul Ekins, “Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 degree C world,” Nature, September 8, 2021.