ANWR Update: Cantwell to Introduce Amendment to Remove Drilling Provision

[kerrygoddess]

ANWR Update: Cantwell to Introduce Amendment to Remove Drilling Provision from Budget
14 March 2005



From Defender’s Environmental Network:

The future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was put in jeopardy last week. Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, included a controversial provision to drill in the Refuge in the Senate version of the budget bill. We are extremely disappointed by Senator Gregg’s irresponsible and destructive decision to use the budget process to open the Refuge to drilling.

Today, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) will introduce an amendment to remove the Arctic drilling provision from the budget. Please take action now! Call your Senators and urge them to support the Cantwell amendment. Using the budget to open the Arctic Refuge is an underhanded tactic to avoid democratic debate on this critical issue, and Sen. Cantwell’s amendment will prevent such budget trickery.

There is no time to waste – we expect the vote on Senator Cantwell’s amendment as early as TOMORROW. Please call your Senators today and urge them to support the Cantwell amendment to strike Arctic drilling from the Senate budget bill. You can find their phone numbers by clicking on the link below. http://www.SaveArcticRefuge.org/senators.html

Please call your Senators today to help ensure that this sneak attack on our wildlife and one of America’s last great expanses of wilderness fails. We expect this vote to come up tomorrow or Wednesday, so there is no time to waste – please call today.

Thank you for all that you do!

Robert Dewey,

Vice President, Government Relations and External Affairs

For more information, please visit http://www.SaveArcticRefuge.org

Our Environment page has 10 Action Alerts which are all focused on ANWR. We need to be heard on this! Please Speak Out!

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=541

[flpoljunkie]

1. Senator Mel Martinez, R-FL, also now has website with email contact form.

http://martinez.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home

Do both.

[kerrygoddess]

2. Thanks for the update...

:kick:

[paineinthearse]

3. Senator Boxer call to action - see seperate DU post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=132&topic_id=1659364&mesg_id=1659364

[sandnsea]

4. Senators to target

Landrieu LA, Inouye HI, Akaka HI, Smith OR, Chafee RI, Snowe ME, Collins ME, McCain, AZ, DeWine OH, Coleman MN, Martinez FL.

[sandnsea]

5. Smith won't support drilling

My son just told me he called earlier today and the office said Smith will vote to take the drilling out of the Budget. Looks like that's one.

[joanski01]

6. That's good to hear.

Thanks a lot.

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. Did Cantwell have a recent religious experience or what?

First she voted no on the bankruptcy scam, now this. It's so unlike her to go against the corporatists.

[Mass]

8. Press announcement tomorrow.

Kerry, Cantwell Fight Arctic Drilling

Senator Kerry joins Senator Cantwell to offer a budget amendment to block drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Monday, March 14, 2005

Washington, D.C. - Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) will be joined by colleagues and supporters as they announce their plans to introduce a budget amendment in opposition to efforts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge at a Capitol Hill press conference tomorrow - Tuesday, March 15.

The Cantwell-Kerry amendment rids the budget of language that opens ANWR to drilling. Kerry and Cantwell are leading the charge to protect this valuable natural refuge, and supporters and colleagues will share their views on this important fight.

WHAT: John Kerry and Maria Cantwell announce budget amendment to block arctic drilling

WHO: Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Senator John Kerry (D-MA) Savannah Rose Walters, 13 year old girl from Florida who is fighting to save the Arctic Refuge Bishop Mark McDonald from Alaska Other colleagues and supporters

WHEN: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:00 a.m.

WHERE: Russell Senate Office Building Russell Caucus Room (Room 325)


Contact: David Wade or April Boyd