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.