If oil companies are allowed to drill in one of the world's most extreme, isolated, and unpredictable environments, a deadly oil spill is not a question of if - but when. Far from emergency help, toxic oil could leak unchecked beneath the ice for years.
An oil spill would have a catastrophic, and possibly irreversible, impact on the entire Arctic ecosystem. Greenpeace urges everyone to act now to stop an oil spill in the Arctic before it starts:
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/content/sta-time-is-running-out/