Fw: Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Senate Budget Debate Next Week - FCNL

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From: "Kathy Guthrie" <kathyguthrie@fcnl.org>
To: "Miriam Vieni" <miriamvieni@optonline.net>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:04 PM
Subject: Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Senate Budget Debate Next
Week - FCNL

Next week (week of March 13), the Senate is set to debate once again
opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration.
Please contact your senators today. Urge them to oppose. The vote is
expected to be close. Your calls and emails can make a difference.
Getting your friends and family to call and email can make an even
bigger difference.

*Act Now*

Please email your senators now. Ask your friends and family to do the
same. You can email your senators directly from FCNL's web site, as
well as find talking points to help you write your message:
http://www.fcnl.org/redir/2606arctic/

*More Information*

It took thousands of years for the plant and animal communities to
co-evolve in the frozen, forbidding environment that is the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge, and it took epochs to lay down and store the
hydrocarbons in the rock strata beneath. But it will take only a couple
of short decades for the oil industry to disrupt the fragile web of
life on the surface, extract the energy value that lays beneath it, and
release millions of years' worth of stored carbon to the atmosphere --
all for the equivalent of six to twelve months of U.S. oil consumption.

Is this wise stewardship of the earth? What kind of legacy will this
leave to our descendants?

Read More: The Alaska Oil Treadmill: The More We Pump; The Warmer We
Get, FCNL Washington Newsletter, April 2005:
http://www.fcnl.org/redir/2706oilnl/ (free registration required)

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