In a letter signed by over 40 environmental groups, First Nation communities, landowners, and fishermen addressed to Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams, Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea, and Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice, the coalition states:

"We respectfully request, Minister Shea and Minister Prentice, that you both exercise your federally-legislated powers to impose an immediate moratorium on any and all oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence for now and in the foreseeable future. The benefits of 1 or 2 decades of non-renewable oil revenue could never come even close to justifying the enormous risks to the centuries-old renewable resources of our priceless Gulf."

Founding member of Save our Seas and Shores, Mary Gorman says, "Any spill would create widespread contamination along the coastlines of all five Gulf provinces. It's not worth the risk because one spill could wipe out our entire Gulf."

Gorman said the coalition will also raise its concerns to the Prime Minister Stephen Harper, federal cabinet ministers and the premiers regarding regulatory regime in the Gulf region she believes is fundamentally flawed.

"The current regulatory regime does not work because we have five provincial jurisdictions functioning as if there are five separate bodies of water," Gorman States.

The coalition also plans to ask the federal government to halt exploration by Corridor Resources in an area called the Old Harry Prospect off Iles-de-la-Madeleine and ban all further oil and gas activity.