Environmental groups support UNCLOS because of treaty protections for the Arctic environment

In spite of these efforts to raise awareness of potential adverse environmental impacts, these concerns do not seem to be slowing the push for Arctic drilling and exploration.⁶⁷ In fact, "several prominent [U.S.] environmental organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Ocean Conservancy, formed an unlikely alliance with big oil and gas to support UNCLOS."⁶⁸ This is because UNCLOS has provisions to help protect the Arctic environment.⁶⁹ Thus, even though "pursuing oil exploration in the Arctic would threaten the region's fragile ecology,"⁷⁰ environmental groups also see internationally organized territory as a way establishing a cohesive view that will prevent pollution in the Arctic.