As sea ice melts, open water in the Arctic makes oil extraction even easier. For corporations that have profited off of fossil fuels, that’s great news, but for the rest of us it’s devastating.
In response to the release from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announcing their five-year offshore leasing program that includes future leases in the Arctic Ocean for oil and gas drilling, Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard gave the following statement:
Better blowout technology, increased regulations, and stricter enforcement can never erase the risk of drilling in deeper, more remote and ecologically fragile places.
In response to the announcement by the Department of Interior of the lifting of the offshore drilling moratorium, Greenpeace USA Executive Director Phil Radford said:
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