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Why the Arctic says no to Big Oil
Why the Arctic says no to Big Oil
My friend Jim Stump recently spent five days camping above the Arctic Circle with a group of faith leaders in the very place Big Oil keeps trying to drill ... and what's happening there right now is more hopeful than you'd think. 💸 Good news: When 690,000 acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge went up for oil and gas leasing this June, only two bidders showed up; and neither of them were a major oil company. 🧊 Not-so-good news: The same Arctic that sustains polar bears, caribou, and G...