Dear Candace,

We have roughly 40 working days to protect mother polar bears and their baby cubs from a major attack.

Why? Big Oil and their allies are feeling the heat of a close election approaching and they want to get a bill to drill in the Arctic Refuge passed while they still have friends in office.

We have roughly 40 days. Please help our friends at Defenders of Wildlife hold the line against harmful Arctic drilling. Donate today:
http://go.care2.com/e/MpS/QL/trmV

Polar bears have enough to worry about without harmful new drilling. Earlier this year, more than 201,000 gallons of oil were spilled just 30 miles west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The spill went undetected for five days before someone happened to smell oil in the area, and the apparent carelessness spurred Congressional hearings on the safety of drilling operations in Alaska.

With a track record like this, do you trust oil execs to protect baby polar bears? Donate here:
http://go.care2.com/e/MpS/QL/trmV

Oil leaks – which occur an average of 400 times a year in Alaska's nearby Prudhoe Bay oil field – could devastate polar bears and other wildlife in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, "[Polar] bears that contact oil are likely to die."

Big Oil is NOT on our side. In the lead-up to the most recent Arctic Drilling vote, ExxonMobil and other big oil companies ran full page ads in major national newspapers. They flooded Senate offices with high-priced lobbyists. And you can bet they reminded Senators of the more than $2.6 million in campaign contributions that the oil and gas industry doled out to Senators in the 2004 election cycle.

Polar bears can't fight Big Oil's dirty drilling plan, but you and I can. Even with all this oil money spilling into the political system, we have come within two votes of keeping Big Oil out of our Arctic Refuge.

We can still protect the Arctic Refuge and its wildlife for another year. Donate today.

Your contribution will help support work to mobilize grassroots activists, educate the media, and support work to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other great, wild places.

Last year, Democrats and moderate Republicans worked together to keep Big Oil out of the Arctic Refuge. We need your support to make sure they hold the line for our treasured wildlife.

Thank you for your help,

Hilary Stamper
Care2 and ThePetitionSite.com

P.S. With all the dangers they currently face, polar bears can't afford new drilling in the Arctic Refuge. Habitat loss is already forcing polar bears as far as 60 miles offshore in their search for food, causing some to drown. Industrial chemicals have polluted their food supply, weakening their immune systems and causing deformities. Increased drilling, road building, and other activities that come with expanded drilling could frighten mother bears into abandoning their dens, leaving cubs to die.
Please donate now to help protect polar bears and their home in the Arctic Refuge.



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