Dear Friend,
| Help us kick-off the Arctic Sunrise’s expedition of the Gulf by telling Congress “No New Drilling!” |
White House energy adviser Carol Browner has recently been making the talk show rounds and telling the public about a new government assessment that shows that 75% of the oil from BP’s drilling disaster has either been captured, burned off, evaporated or broken down in the Gulf. As she puts it, “Mother Nature did her part….”
You’re not alone if you think that sounds too good to be true.
That’s why we’ve sailed the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise to the Gulf and are embarking tomorrow on a three-month expedition to provide independent scientific analysis of the impacts of both the oil and chemical dispersants on the Gulf ecosystem. We have to know the truth about the damage that was done.
Relying on BP and federal officials to do that job for us would be foolish at this point. From day one, BP was doing everything in its power to hide the true extent of the disaster and they often had the help of a federal government who seemed more concerned with maintaining its public image than addressing the problem. The Gulf deserves better. We deserve better.
But we don’t have to run a single test to prove that oil drilling is dangerous and deadly. BP has done that work for us. And we don’t need any elaborate solutions to solve the problem either. What we need is to put an end to all new drilling and to transition to clean, renewable sources of energy.
Help us kick-off our tour of the Gulf by taking action and telling Congress “No New Drilling!” today.
Over the course of the next three months we’ll be telling you all about what we find in the Gulf on our website, in our blogs, through videos and photos and more. We’ll also be giving you opportunities to help make the clean energy future we all know is possible a reality by stopping upcoming drilling projects, confronting the fossil fuel industry in your community and joining with people globally for a day of action.
You can start right now by telling Congress “No New Drilling!”
Sincerely,
Dan Howells
Greenpeace Deputy Campaign Director
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