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Tell Salazar: No drilling off Georgia's coasts!


Please ask Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to protect our oceans and beaches from offshore drilling. Drilling produces chronic pollution, catastrophic spills and industrializes our coasts.

Take action today by signing our petition to Sec. Salazar to protect Georgia's coastline.



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Stopping Oil Drilling Off Our Coasts

Supporting the 26 year-old moratorium on new offshore drilling, we helped block an amendment that would have allowed drilling for natural gas as close as 50 miles off the coast of Virginia, off the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and off Assateague Island National Seashore and wildlife areas. Read more.

 

Sign the petition:


Dear Secretary Salazar,

More drilling off our coasts is the wrong way to solve our energy security, energy supply and economic problems. Despite claims by Big Oil, drilling is still a risky business, which pollutes our oceans and threatens ocean life and sensitive coasts and beaches.

That's why I support efforts to reinstate the offshore drilling moratorium that protected our Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the Gulf coast of Florida for more than 25 years. Given all the damage already inflicted on our oceans from dead zones, ocean warming and acidification, overfishing and toxic pollution, I don't want to add one more stress from drilling.

I applaud your recent support for getting clean, renewable energy from ocean winds, waves and currents rather than new drilling. You've said coastal states can get as much as 20 percent of their electricity from ocean wind energy alone. Let's getting moving on that plan and save our beaches and oceans for sustainable activities, not polluting ones.

Please, direct the Department of Interior to prioritize these clean energy projects rather than allowing any new drilling off our coasts.
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