Comment: I Want BP to Understand the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is Sacred Ground — They Can’t Drill It

Bernadette Demientieff is the Executive Director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, a group pressuring BP to abandon plans to drill the community’s sacred lands.

Next week, I’m going to travel halfway around the world from my home in Alaska to Aberdeen, Scotland to speak at BP’s annual shareholder meeting. I plan to share with the oil company’s executives how important the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is to my people and urge them not to pursue destructive oil drilling or exploration in our sacred lands.