Dear Kenny,
If we don't act now, thousands of
whales and dolphins will soon be subjected to loud, deafening blasts in
the Atlantic Ocean. I'm petitioning President Obama to save them.
Will you join me?
The Obama administration is considering
allowing the use of deadly seismic airgun blasts to search for oil and
gas under the ocean floor, the first harmful step toward expanding
dangerous offshore drilling to the Atlantic. The U.S. Department of the
Interior estimates that 138,500 whales and dolphins will be injured and
possibly killed along the East Coast if these tests are allowed to go
through. These blasts are 100,000 times louder than a jet engine, and
they will happen every 10 seconds for months.
Will
you help me stop this? Call on President Obama to protect East Coast
economies and marine ecosystems by rejecting this proposal for seismic
airgun testing for oil and gas in the Atlantic.
The White House has committed to
respond to every petition that gets more than 100,000 signatures in 30
days. I know that with your help, we can reach that goal. If this is
your first time signing a White House petition, here's what you need to
do (it takes about two minutes):
These
seismic airgun blasts will injure some of the last surviving North
Atlantic right whales. Seismic airguns also scare away fish and could
pose a risk to East Coast fisheries, which are home to 200,000 jobs and
nearly $12 billion in economic activity each year. We need to convince
the Obama administration not to do this.
Please sign my White House petition
to President Obama, calling on him to reject seismic airgun testing to
search for oil and gas in the Atlantic. We only have 30 days to get
100,000 signatures, so sign today and then
forward this e-mail to your friends and family. Tell them I asked you to.
The worst part is that seismic airgun
testing, while awful in and of itself, is the first step toward
expanding offshore drilling to the East Coast. Remember the Gulf of
Mexico oil disaster? Let's not repeat history.
We don't need to turn the Atlantic into
a blast zone. There are clean energy alternatives to drilling, such as
offshore wind. Our oceans can be put to a positive, renewable use to
produce energy. For so many reasons - threats like airguns, oil spills,
climate change, and ocean acidification to name a few - we should be
phasing out offshore drilling, not expanding it to areas that have been
protected for decades.
Today our oceans need your help more than ever.
Please sign my petition
to President Obama right now, and then forward this email to your
friends and family. This one simple action could make the difference
for thousands of dolphins and whales, and for all the people and animals
living on our Atlantic coast.
For the oceans,
Ted Danson
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