Gen Paul: very concerned by proposals for oil and gas leasing in U.S. Arctic waters.

Vet Voice Foundation

robert -
Having devoted significant years of our lives to the security of the United States, we are very concerned by proposals for oil and gas leasing in U.S. Arctic waters. Offshore drilling the Department of Interior is considering there would place additional demands on our military and move national energy policy in an unstable direction.
Global warming is degrading the Arctic ice cap, encouraging increased shipping and potentially other commercial activity. This greater activity means we need to better police our remote Arctic Ocean border, enhancing our military presence there with new icebreakers, patrol vessels, and onshore facilities. We also need to ratify the Law of the Sea, so we can take advantage of its dispute resolution mechanisms and boundary rules.
Putting vulnerable drill rigs, their support fleets, and the infrastructure to transport fossil fuels into this extremely harsh and remote environment would increase military needs. Recently, just to support preliminary exploration there, the Coast Guard had to divert resources from our southern seas. Full scale development, let alone a major spill or blowout, would greatly complicate the challenge. Moreover, industrial development would not solidify U.S. presence there, since the lease area is unequivocally and securely our sovereign territory.
From a security standpoint, federal efforts should focus on accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels, rather than encouraging long-range dependence on them. Internationally, strife over oil and gas engenders conflict and terrorism that affect our country, whether the U.S. uses the fuels or not. And the climate damage they cause interferes with military readiness and operations while increasing global instability.
The United States needs to produce oil and gas while we transition to cleaner alternatives. But it must not come from the Arctic Ocean, and we must further set the example and deter other nations from Arctic region drilling. To avoid the most globally destabilizing impacts of climate change, it is necessary to step back from expanding development.
Because of the adverse implications for our national security interests, the federal government should not offer oil and gas leases in the Arctic Ocean. We should invest in regional military capacity to secure existing activity there. And we should focus energy policy on renewables and efficiency, not fueling climate risks.
All my best,
Major General (ret.) Paul Eaton
Vet Voice Foundation





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