Great Lakes Oil Drilling Ban Petition: Another Reminder

What would happen to Wisconsin if the BP oil spill in the Gulf happened in Lake Michigan or Lake Superior instead? What if tar balls were washing up on beaches in Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Door County and the Apostle Islands? Or if thousands of lake trout and salmon were found dead and instead of oil-coated pelicans it was eagles, ospreys, loons and ducks?

We simply cannot afford to open the door to a BP-style catastrophe that will destroy our environment, our economy and our quality of life.

Say NO! to drilling in the Great Lakes!

Support the movement for a Wisconsin constitutional amendment banning drilling in the Great Lakes at http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/bangreatlakesdrilling

Conservatives in Wisconsin have wasted no time making it clear they put Big Oil interests ahead of the people of Wisconsin.

When asked by the Associated Press if the BP spill in the Gulf should prompt more caution before undertaking new oil drilling projects, Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson answered simply "NO."¹. And in an interview last week, when asked about potential oil drilling in the Great Lakes, Johnson said "I think we have to get the oil where it is."²

Dave Westlake, who's running in the primary for the Republican nomination for US Senate, echoed the controversial remarks of Joe Barton (R-Texas) and called the $20 billion fund set up by BP to pay for claims filed from the BP spill "Nothing more than a shakedown of BP."³

http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/bangreatlakesdrilling.

We want to enact a complete and permanent ban on drilling in the Great Lakes, a protection that would ensure Wisconsin doesn't become the next oil disaster zone. Sign on in support of a constitutional amendment to ban drilling in the Great Lakes at http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/bangreatlakesdrilling

Together, we can keep the Great Lakes safe from oil companies and make sure a catastrophe like the BP oil spill in the Gulf never happens here.

http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/bangreatlakesdrilling.

P.S.--We cannot allow the Great Lakes to become the next location for oil drilling. Join the movement today to enact a constitutional amendment banning drilling the Great Lakes at http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/bangreatlakesdrilling.

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¹ Westlake, Johnson talk Gulf spill, Patriot Act at forum, WisPolitics Interview, 6/10/2010]

² Wisconsin Senate Candidates Want to Drill, Dubuque Times Herald, 6/6/2010

³Ron Johnson and Dave Westlake, R-BP, Capital Times, 6/22/2010

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