09/21/2011
https://congress.gov...
"You consume. The average American consumes. And yet you ask us to bear the burden of mitigation so that you don't have to."
"Oil and gas activities on the Coastal Plain is a direct attack on our ways of life and to our human rights."
"Protection of the birthing and nursery grounds on the Coastal Plain is a human rights issue for the Gwich'in Nation."
"Drilling there would cause lower birth rates and threaten migrations, risking everything we hold dear."