I am strongly opposed to oil and gas drilling in Teshekpuk Lake area of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). One of the most important wetlands in the Arctic, the Teshekpuk Lake region provides habitat for a million birds, including threatened species like the Spectacled Eider, as well as the 45,000-member Teshekpuk Lake Caribou Herd.

The draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement issued by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) could lead to the opening of this ecologically important wetland habitat to lease sales. The region's Native residents have expressed strong opposition to the plan.

I ask you to not open the Teshekpuk Lake area to drilling for oil and gas. I also ask that the BLM protect the full range of the area's values, from subsistence to recreation to the health of fish and wildlife populations.
Such a decision is the only appropriate one for this globally important wetland habitat. Thank you for your consideration.

Yea, yea, you probably oppose windmill farms blocking the view or because you think birds won't learn to stay away from them. And every other solution has some drawback while you bitch about the things that must be done to uphold the oil-based economy of the West -- which did not start in 2000 by the way. It's been 100 years in the making.
Come up with a solution or two now & then.
You think people would want your style of Chavez tyranny any better than this?
If you're so righteous how are you so hateful and negative?

What is the matter with you, davboz? You don't suffer from a communication criss-cross, do you?

Mick Ashworth, editor-in-chief of the annual Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, said his staff of 50 cartographers now updates their databases every three and a half minutes. Commented the editor, "We can literally see environmental disasters unfolding before our eyes."

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