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Testimony of Nada Culver before House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Hearing on Solar Energy Development PDF

Testimony presented by Nada Culver to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on solar energy development. The hearing occurred on September 24, 2009. 

Green Transmission Letters to Congress PDF

See the letters The Wilderness Society drafted to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, signed by 22 leading renewable energy companies, conservation, and other organizations, that asked our leaders to consider priorities when drafting new energy transmission legislation.

Carrizo Plain National Monument – Too Wild to Drill PDF

Since the area’s recognition as an important natural area, designation as a National Monument in 2001 and subsequent management as part of the BLM’s National Landscape Conservation System, the Carrizo Plain has benefited from management decisions including the reduction of oil and gas drilling and the implementation of critical conservation measures such as reduced grazing on the Carrizo and Elkhorn Plains.

Majora Carter on Rural Economic Development VIDEO

Majora Carter talks about her work to help build sustainable communities. Ms. Carter is a member of The Wilderness Society' Governing Council. She spoke with us in Denver in late August, 2008.

The "2,000-acres" Scam PDF

Energy bills that have narrowly passed the House of Representatives (H.R. 4 August 2, 2001; H.R. 6 April 11, 2003, H.R. 6, April, 21 2005) contain language designed to make oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sound more palatable to the public. One such scam was an amendment claiming development would be confined to a 2,000 acre area. In reality, opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling would cause environmental devastation across the entire 1.5 million-acre Coastal Plain, the biological heart of the Refuge.

Alpine Oil Development: Nothing to Brag About PDF

Proponents of opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development profess a commitment to strict environmental regulation, and they assert that new technologies — particularly ice roads and directional drilling — will make drilling in the Arctic Refuge environmentally benign. They cite the recent Alpine oil development as the state-of-the-art showcase for this new technology.