Alaskan Natives Speak Out After Obama Greenlights Oil Drilling Off Alaskan Coast.
Mr. President, " Is this just another form of ( Smallpox Blanket)?
One cannot push this country down the road of relief from fossil fuel dependency while speaking in one part of this country and then push our indigenous people into elimination just to please big business in other parts of this country and expect respect from the people.
Colleen Swan a resident of Kivalina, Alaska, a largely Inupiat community shared some of her thoughts on the oil leases.
"They have not begun to even comprehend the meaning of an oil spill in our already fragile environment."
"The oil companies and the government who issues such permits will continue with business as usual and the oil companies will recover. They have reserves to fall back on. We don’t. Once we lose our livelihood, our subsistence way of life, it’s gone for a long, long time. The ocean will not recover as quickly as the oil companies and neither will the coastal communities."
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