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.