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National Council and Sierra Club launch ad campaign on Alaskan drilling
2002-015-4
1/18/2002
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[Episcopal News Service]
The National Council of Churches (NCC) and the Sierra Club have launched an advertising campaign to promote alternatives to controversial plans to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
The campaign's ads argue that the nation's energy needs can be met from 'quicker, cleaner, cheaper and safer solar energy-efficient technologies and alternative energy power like solar and wind.' The ads are part of a wider NCC effort to make environmental protection a more prominent part of its ministry.
'People of faith take seriously the biblical mandate to be good stewards of creation-and that means finding smarter, cleaner, safer ways to satisfy our energy needs without damaging the irreplaceable gifts of nature with which our nation has been so blessed,' General Secretary Robert Edgar said in a statement about the campaign. He added that conservation would provide 'much greater benefits that are more permanent, and in the long run less costly, than a modest and short-lived increase in oil supply at the price of a ravaged environment.'
The NCC provided staff assistance and consultation for the ads, which were paid for by the Sierra Club. They are appearing on local television stations and newspapers in Georgia, Arizona, North Dakota, Indiana, Missouri and Delaware.
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