BP Well Continues to Leak in Alaska’s North Slope

Deadhorse, Alaska -- A British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas well on Alaska’s Northern Slope that blew out on Friday continues to spill crude oil and gas uncontrollably. No one was injured when the well blew out.

This disaster comes on the heels of two spills in Alaska’s Cook inlet and less than a week before the seven year anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP’s spill is approximately 60 miles west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

In response, Director of Sierra Club’s Alaska Program Dan Ritzman released the following statement:

“Oil companies continue to treat Alaska with reckless abandon, threatening its pristine waters, wildlife, and communities. Big Oil has repeatedly proven it can’t drill for fossil fuels safely, it has repeatedly proven they can’t transport it safely, and it has repeatedly proven they can’t be trusted with the safety and well-being of the state and its habitat.

“It’s past time that Donald Trump and his friends in the fossil fuel industry put Alaska ahead of corporate polluter’s profits which only threaten the state’s beauty and environment.”

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