Shell just caused an 88,200-gallon oil spill 90 miles off the coast of Louisiana.
Tell President Obama to stop ALL new offshore drilling in the Gulf and Arctic.
Picture 88,200 gallons of crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. This didn’t happen years ago — it happened less than two weeks ago near Shell’s Brutus drilling platform.
The photos are shocking. But if you ask coastal communities in the Gulf they’ll tell you the impacts of chronic fossil fuel exploitation are nothing new. Oil companies view spills like this one as business as usual. This is not acceptable — and business as usual CANNOT continue.
The good news is there’s a clear way to prevent more spills like this one and protect our climate at the same time — and President Obama can do it with the stroke of a pen.
This recent Shell spill — just 90 miles off the coast of Louisiana — is one of the largest oil spills in the region since BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, which dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the ocean. But it’s not the only spill. Since 2010, over 10,000 spills have reported in the Gulf of Mexico alone.
Considering the devastation coastal communities throughout the Gulf still struggle with today, it’s hard to understand how the Obama administration is even considering a plan that would allow new drilling off the Gulf and Alaskan coasts.
New drilling in the Gulf and other waters is bad for coastal communities, our oceans, and the climate. But you and I have the power to prevent future oil disasters and worsening climate change. Are you in?
Please join me while there’s still time. Tell President Obama NO NEW DRILLING in the Gulf or Arctic.
Thank you,
Ryan Schleeter
Climate Team, Greenpeace USA
P.S. The opportunity to tell President Obama to stop ALL new offshore drilling is almost over — and this recent Shell oil spill shows what we are up against. Don’t miss out on this chance to make your voice heard — send your comment now.
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