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Save the last 130

Save the last 130

A third oil platform could push the western gray whale to extinction.

With probably fewer than 130 of the critically endangered whales left – and only 26 breeding females – the situation is urgent.

Losing just one or two females each year could push them to extinction.

What are the risks?

  • Seismic surveys – designed to find out the best location for a platform – will emit loud sound blasts, threatening to drive the whales from their feeding grounds
  • Increased likelihood of oil spills
  • Collisions with ships
  • Chemical pollution
Despite ongoing drilling from two existing platforms, Sakhalin Energy – a consortium that includes Shell, Gazprom, Mitsui and Mitsubishi – wants to build a third platform right next to their most important feeding ground.

We need your support to put an end to this third platform. If we don’t act now, the consequences could be too bleak to contemplate.

We’re calling for banks that have invested in this project to demonstrate that they can be a force for good and to help stop plans for another platform.
   Help us persuade the banks to do the right thing.