Hub Capital has affirmed in a letter to the Gwich’in Steering Committee an association framed by Alaska’s Gwich’in Indian Nation to protect the climate that it won’t give protection inclusion or speculation backing to projects identified with investigation, boring, or the creation of oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Hub Capital is the third worldwide protection firm, after AXA and Swiss Re, to make such a responsibility, and the primary North American firm to focus on not supporting oil and gas abuse of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
“We believe climate-related risks are among the most serious issues facing the world today,” Conrad Brooks, general counsel and corporate secretary for AXIS Capital, wrote in the letter. “We also recognize the importance of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the Gwich’in and your families, as well as our planet.”
The news comes in the wake of what the Gwich’in Steering Committee called a “flawed, rushed and unlawful lease sale” in the untamed life asylum. While there was some interest from the oil and gas industry, the territory of Alaska spent more than $12 million to buy leases on the asylum.
“Of the 11 tracts leased, nine were won by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, a state corporation with a history of mismanagement and possible corruption that largely ignored the concerns of Alaska Natives who overwhelmingly spoke out against the plan,” the Gwich’in Steering Committee said.
Different leases were bought by Knik Arm Services, an organization with no set of experiences of advancement, and Regenerate Alaska, an auxiliary of Australia-based 88 Energy.
The Gwich’in Steering Committee said that AXIS Capital’s declaration is an indication that guarantors and speculators are progressively considering oil and gas improvement in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge too extraordinary a monetary and reputational hazard.
The Gwich’in have a social and profound association with the Porcupine Caribou Herd, a crowd that depends on the seaside plain of the asylum as its birthing and calving grounds. The Gwich’in call the beach front plain where penetrating is proposed “the Sacred Place Where Life Begins.”
“Destruction of the Arctic Refuge is a direct attack on the rights of the Gwich’in Nation,” said Bernadette Demientieff, executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee.
“The Creator blessed us with this land so we could care for it and protect it, as we have done for thousands of years. The recent lease sale ignored all our concerns and dismissed the climate crisis, but the commitment from AXIS today shows that other companies agree with us and respect us. We need more companies to stand with us, respect our human rights and out way of life. We cannot let the destruction of the Arctic Refuge happen not today, not ever.”
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