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ALERT! Obama’s Crude Awakening: Offshore Oil Drilling Is Ecologically Devastating and Must End

Posted by Water Conservation Blog on May 16th, 2010
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark Climate Change Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! U.S. oil addiction [search] is killing American and global ecology. An international wake-up call must be delivered to both the administration and Congress, to focus more effort upon reducing the demand for oil. The risks and costs of offshore oil [search] exploration far outweigh their benefits, and the U.S. would be better off focusing upon promoting alternative energy sources. Will virtually every remaining intact ecosystem be razed to access every last bit of oil before we transition to lower energy use, a low carbon economy and renewable energy? TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=gulf_oil_spill New estimates are the Gulf Oil Spill is leaking at least 10 times the amount of oil as previous estimates of 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons, or 795,000 liters) a day, meaning the ongoing spill already far exceeds the Exxon Valdez accident. BP has shown it lacks the necessary capacity to handle the spill, as capping the leak has taken too long, and the cleanup will be massive. Given the extent of the ongoing spill, and the potential for the spill to spread more widely during the hurricane season, the federal government must immediately nationalize the spill response and ...
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