ACTION ITEMS FOR ALASKA RESIDENTS:

• Urge your Tribe, Village, or Native association to pass a resolution supporting protection for Bristol Bay 
• Urge fishing industry organizations to take an active role in restoring protection

• Write, call or e-mail elected officials:                                                   
  

Urge Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Mark Begich, and Governor Parnell to support efforts to restore protection for Bristol Bay from offshore oil and gas drilling.

Remind Senator Begich, Senator Murkowski, and Governor Palin that:

• The area targeted for offshore oil and gas leasing in 2011 (North Aleutian Basin, Lease Sale 92 area) overlaps important fishing grounds and habitat for salmon, pollock, cod, flatfish, herring, king crab and halibut.
• Sockeye salmon - the lifeblood of Bristol Bay communities and important to fishing families throughout Alaska and the Pacific Northwest  - utilize the area targeted for drilling during a number of key periods in their life cycle.
• Offshore oil and gas exploration, development and production activities in these fishery-rich waters poses tremendous risk. The range of potential impacts from offshore seismic surveys, infrastructure emplacement, contaminated discharges and accidental spills could have serious repercussions for Alaska's fishing industry and subsistence traditions.
• Federal studies assume that offshore oil and gas production in Bristol Bay would result in at least one major spill of more than 1,000 barrels and numerous smaller spills. Oil spills could not only harm the health of fisheries, but could negatively affect the ability to market the region's wild seafood products.
• Alaska's fisheries are an extremely valuable, renewable resource that can continue to benefit fishermen and the State for many years to come. Offshore oil and gas development in Bristol Bay would jeopardize this promising future.

You can email Senator Murkowski, call or write to:

709 Hart Senate Building
Washington , DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6665
Fax: 202-224-5301
Toll free: 877-829-6030

 
You can email Governor Parnell, call or write to:

The Honorable Governor Sean Parnell
PO Box 110001
Juneau, AK 99811-0001
Ph: (907) 465-3500
Fax: (907) 465-3532

ACTION ITEMS FOR WEST COAST RESIDENTS:

 
WASHINGTON:

Urge Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) to support efforts to restore protection for Bristol Bay from offshore oil and gas drilling. 

173 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2621
Fax: (202) 224-0238
Toll Free: (866) 481-9186

OREGON:

Urge Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) to support efforts to restore protection for Bristol Bay from offshore oil and gas drilling.

You can email Senator Wyden, call or write to:

223 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-3703
Phone: (202) 224-5244
Fax: (202) 228-2717

 
CALIFORNIA: 

Urge Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to support efforts to restore protection for Bristol Bay from offshore oil and gas drilling. 

You can email Senator Boxer, call or write to:

112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3553
(202) 224-0454 fax

ACTION ITEMS FOR ALL RESIDENTS:

 
Urge your elected officials to support efforts to restore protection for Bristol Bay from offshore oil and gas drilling. Click here to find out who represents you and how to contact them.

Send letters to local papers: letters to the editor and longer opinion pieces in local papers are a great way to get your message on offshore drilling out there. Some potential sources include the Bristol Bay Times, Anchorage Daily News, The Oregonian, The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Feel free to use fact sheets and other information from our website to help craft your message.

Join the Bristol Bay offshore oil and gas listserv to stay informed and take timely action: Send an e-mail to Kelly@akmarine.org to join.

Give to the cause by clicking here.