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So SICK of this SH..!

Nikki Broadwell
2 min readMar 14, 2023

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Biden is going ahead with drilling in Alaska — he promised he would not do this. Bowed to pressure from big oil and God knows who else. An $8 million dollar project. The environmental impact is staggering.

I am crying right now. We have a democrat in the presidency who may as well be a Republican. We are trying to get off oil. Already our animals are dwindling. What is life without our pristine wilderness? A place where we can view animals that aren’t in zoos? I was there years ago and I saw the most unbelievable wildlife — wolves, a lynx, caribou, elk, bears, moose — musk ox. I will not vote for this man again.

He promised. He said it over and over. We will not drill for oil on federal lands. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2022/11/07/biden-promises-no-more-drilling-just-days-after-demanding-more-drilling/?sh=3571d84578e7

What is the point of having any hope at all? They lie. I am without hope right now. We are so divided there is no coming back — I don’t see us as a democracy anymore — not when we have the MTG’s still in congress and a fascist running Florida. Our president has now turned his back on environmentalists like me. I pray there are a million lawsuits…2500 jobs does not seem in keeping with destroying the last place where animals can roam free without being shot to death.

I’m sure many will not agree with me on this — jobs are important, etc…oil is important. But Alaska has always been the last bastion of safety for those of us who care about animals — the one place we have not ruined. There is already a lot of pushback, so I can only hope that lawsuits will hold this up until something better comes along…another way to rape and pillage and make oil companies happy and those who are invested in oil. Does Biden have oil stock? We should probably check that out. I trust no one now.

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Nikki Broadwell
Nikki Broadwell

Written by Nikki Broadwell

In my real life I’m a fantasy/mystery author. What I’ve written so far on Medium have been political opinion pieces. But that is changing!

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