Drilling is pristine offshore and onshore places should be banned
permanently!  From drill, baby, drill, Palin:
 WASHINGTON — "Sarah Palin says she remains a "big supporter of offshore
drilling" despite the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But Palin also tells "Fox
News Sunday" that oil companies need to be held accountable. The former
Alaska governor suggests that drilling on land in places like the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge is safer than trying to extract oil from beneath
the ocean floor." 

I agree--self organizing is important! That's real grassroots and anyone
angered by lifting the ban on offshore drilling and the results of that
with the Gulf spill  should not need a national organization to take self
action.

Any Sierra Club member can write letters, call or write lawmakers to
reinstate the ban on offshore drilling.  If the Tea Party can create
change, surely, Sierra Club activists can stand up and be counted!  It
only takes one spill, such as the Gulf spill, to destroy pristine
habitats.  This hasn't stopped plans to drill in the Arctic in 40 some
days.

Thanks to Christian Yagjian, Global Warming, Energy team, the recent Wed
calls have energized Sierra club members all over the country to stop
offshore drilling.

Thanks to Patrick Bosold, Conservation Chair of the Leopold Group, for an
outstanding letter to the Des Moines Register against offshore drilling. 

Thanks to Sierra Club activists in Des Moines,( rained out May 20) who
will help with an oil spill demonstration to after school children on May
27, and encourage the children to write to President Obama, to stop the
scheduled drilling in the Arctic Ocean and ask him to  protect from
drilling  the polar bear's home in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Phyllis Mains


 Here is a statement about what Sierra Club is doing in response the Gulf
oil disaster. Robin Mann is the new national president of the Coub.

Wally Taylor

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