Super, super, super important messgage - please read and forward ASAP!!!

[Great Lakes Organizer Gal]

Wild Alert!!!!!!! Threat to open Arctic Refuge via provision attached
to Defense Appropriations Bill!!!!!

We have been in touch before about the threat that Arctic drilling
provisions would be added to the budget reconciliation bill. Through
your good work, and against tremendous pro-drilling forces, it now
appears that those forces will not be able to add Arctic drilling to
the budget.

However, there is virtually no limit to what they will try in order to
achieve their special interest goal. In a last minute effort to pass
widely opposed legislation, some Senators are suggesting they will slip
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling language into the Defense
Appropriations (spending) bill. This cynical back-door maneuver by
pro-drilling politicians is nothing but a desperate attempt to hold the
legislative process hostage to their misguided agenda. It is
particularly outrageous given that this is the bill that funds our
troops in a time of war.

Obviously, the Defense Appropriations bill is neither the venue in
which to decide controversial policy issues, nor the venue to approve a
scheme that would forever spoil a national treasure. This legislation
is intended to support our men and woman in uniform and should not be
hijacked by those who are pushing drilling in the Arctic Refuge.

Please call your Senators immediately and express your strong
opposition and outrage to this scheme to force Arctic Refuge drilling
into Defense Appropriations bill. Urge your Senators to do everything
in their power to stop the drilling lobby from hijacking the Defense
spending bill.