Pictured below is part of one of the last truly pristine tracts of land on the face of this earth. The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is home to hundreds of species that have nowhere left to go. ANWR is on the verge of being opened for drilling, and all it took was for a criminal corporate oil baron to put in a private call to the Pumpkin Pollution Pig!
As if we needed another example of Trump putting his business and personal relationships over those of the American people and the environment, the president has now admitted that he didn’t think about drilling on in the Arctic national Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) until an oil industry executive prompted him to.
According to Trump, who recalled the call during a speech at the Republican Member Conference this week:
A friend of mine called up in that world, in that business and said ‘is it true you’re thinking about ANWR?’ I said, ‘yeah, I think we’re going to get it but you know,.”
He said, “are you kidding? You know that’s the biggest thing by itself. Ronald Reagan and every president has wanted to get ANWR approved.”
And after that, I said, “oh, make sure that’s in the [$1.5 trillion tax] bill.”
Trump added, “I really didn’t care about it,” he said. “Then when I heard that everybody wanted it, for 40 years, everybody tried to get it approved, ‘Make sure you don’t lose ANWR.’”
As Trump’s friend mentioned, the oil and gas industry have been pressing for ANWR to be open for drilling for many, many years. Congress only lifted the 40-year ban as part of the Republican tax reform bill approved in December. The tax plan included a “backdoor drilling provision” that was added to secure the vote of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who has long supported arctic drilling.
According to both scientists and conservationists, opening the ANWR for oil and gas drilling would cause irreparable harm to “the most beautiful, pristine wildlife refuge that we have in the United States.”…
Submitted from <Nation of Change>
Here’s the video (only 41 sec.)
Barf Bag Alert!!
I don’t know what we can do to stop it, except protest and support those groups that try to block the polluters as the deploy their destructive equipment.
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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The Orange Ogre needs to be reminded of the maxim that we do not inherit this planet from our parents, we borrow it from our children.
Freya, this pig gives not a damn!
Here is a petition calling on Congress to protect the ANWR from drilling and other exploitation.
Signed!
Thanks, Freya. Signed and shared.
Thanks, Freya. Signed.
Signed!
A beautiful, glorious land for Nature and animals to live in and thrive, ruined by this man’s greed.
It will catch up with all of us too, as corporations will continually strip the land, look at how the Rainforest is being stripped away. It boggles my mind, and depresses me greatly at how this stingy mean man gets approval for something like this. Hell is too good for them all, imho.
I’ve signed so many times for this it’s a wonder I don’t have writer’s cramp (if I’d had to use a pen, I would.) The only strategy I can see that has the slightest chance is tying this up on the courts long enough to get a regime change, and even if that’s feasible, it requires money – which we don’t have. (If anyone does have a few bucks to spare, Friends of the Earth is one good group. There are others.)
Ahhh … Sorry to tell you this, TC – but your headline has a pretty major typo:
As Posted: Republicans Will Destroy ANWR
Corrected: Republicans Will Destroy the Earth
Both are equally correct.
How about Republicans ARE in the process of destroying the Earth?
Perhaps they think their money will help them escape the destruction they are wreaking.
I’ve had my fill of disgusting for today, I think. First the reminder of the promise to make drilling in the ANWR possible to Lisa Murkowski for her vote on the Tax Plan, something that had disgusted me no end at the time.
Now the open admission that a phone call from a billionaire friend was enough to have Drumpf put it on his agenda; not because he even know what it was but because “Ronald Reagan and every president has wanted to get ANWR approved” (except of course for Obama who called a permanent ban on Arctic drilling in December 2016) and now he got it: another win over Obama! And of course Drumpf presents it as his achievement now, but that habitual behavior no longer disgusts me, just makes me a little queezy.
Drumpf and the Republicans will destroy ANWR, and then rest of the world, although that may take them a little longer. And the most disgusting thing is that there’s nothing we can do against it once they’ve started drilling.
Thanks and hugs to all. Lona expressed my frustration.