Title:
Energy Development in Critical Wilderness Ecosystems in the United States
of America
Proposed by: Bruce Hamilton
Seconded by:
Terry
Tanner
WHEREAS,
The United States of America is the largest consumer of energy and the
largest contributor to global warming pollution from the burning of fossil
fuel;
The USA could dramatically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels by adopting
a national energy policy with a primary focus on conservation, energy
efficiency and investment in clean renewable energy resources;
The Bush Administration has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on Global
Climate change and is promoting an energy strategy that is primarily
centred on relaxing environmental standards promoting nuclear power, and
promoting new domestic oil development, including on public lands in or
adjacent to critical wilderness ecosystems and other environmentally
sensitive lands;
THEREFORE,
the 7th World Wilderness Congress:
Recognizes the importance of a sound energy policy for the United States
and all nations, especially one which is based on principles of
conservation and lowered dependence on imported fuels; and hereby
RESOLVES, that
Urge the United States of America to ratify and implement the Kyoto
Protocol on global climate change and adopt a national energy policy that
has primary reliance on conservation, energy efficiency and expanding
clean renewable resources of energy, while reducing reliance on nuclear
power and fossil fuels, while fully enforcing all existing environmental
laws; and
Call upon the government of the United States to specifically and fully
protect the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska), the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming) and the Greater Glacier -
Bob Marshall Ecosystem (Montana) from oil and gas development by
permanently withdrawing federal lands in these ecosystems from mineral
development and designating all qualifying wild lands in these ecosystems
as wilderness under the Wilderness Act.
Proposed by:
Bruce Hamilton
Sierra Club
85 2nd Street
San Francisco CA 94105 USA
Seconded by:
Terry Tanner
Natural Resource Planner
CSKT (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes)
Pablo, Montana, USA
