Comments on: New BP Spill, This Time in Alaska http://blog.nwf.org/2011/07/new-bp-spill-this-time-in-alaska/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Sat, 25 May 2013 21:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Shell Oil Rig Runs Aground Off Alaskan Wilderness, Threatening Wildlife : Wildlife Promise http://blog.nwf.org/2011/07/new-bp-spill-this-time-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-17483 Shell Oil Rig Runs Aground Off Alaskan Wilderness, Threatening Wildlife : Wildlife Promise Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:22:07 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=27436#comment-17483 [...] troubles are far from the only trouble the oil industry has seen in Alaska recently. There was a BP oil spill in July 2011 and a Spanish drilling company’s well blowout in February 2012. As a 2010 National Wildlife [...]

]]> By: Wwe13775 http://blog.nwf.org/2011/07/new-bp-spill-this-time-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-10938 Wwe13775 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:48:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=27436#comment-10938 If we knew about every oil spill (forget “spill,” the wanton dumping of myriads of toxic waste!)  in the world, and were shown daily and graphically the death and destruction they cause to the environment and innocent children and wildlife, we’d run screaming from the room…hopefully into the streets to protest and put a stop to the horror we are allowing to happen. Or maybe not, maybe many of us would just turn the channel to America’s Got Talent and burp….hey, it’s not in my back yard… 
Well, if these some people have their way..it WILL be!  welcome to The Wasteland, not with a bang…

Please, people, write, call your reps and the president, put a sign in your yard, protest…wouldn’t it be nice if your children and grand children weren’t eating and breathing oil every day? 

]]> By: Fair Climate Project http://blog.nwf.org/2011/07/new-bp-spill-this-time-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-10917 Fair Climate Project Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:59:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=27436#comment-10917 Ironic, too, that this comes
within a week of Obama’s announcement that he is creating a new, high-level
interagency working group to coordinate further oil drilling in Alaska. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/12/coordinating-safe-and-responsible-energy-development-alaska
 

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