PlusOil Companies Protected if They Harm Polar BearsOil Companies Protected if They Harm Polar BearsThe ociated PressThe Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies. The companies are planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska. (June 14)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] [Notes:Dateline Washington][Notes:NATS UP "Today I am listing the polar bear as a threatened species under the endagered specis act"] That was just four weeks ago.But now the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy … and potentially harm … Polar bears.The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies.Those companies plan to search for oil and gas off the northwestern coast of Alaska. That’s where the government auctioned off oil leases to ConocoPhillips … Shell Oil and five other companies for more than two-and-a-half billion dollars.The new wildlife service regulations mean it will be O-K legally if `small numbers’ of polar bears or Pacific walruses are harmed over the next five years.But environmentalists say the new regulations give oil companies a blank cheque to harass the polar bear.Just over ten percent of polar bears in the Arctic live in and around the Alaskan coast. ___ ___, The ociated Press.(****END****)
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August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
more ways world …
more ways world government is destroying the planet. Pigs.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
I resoundingly …
I resoundingly support Bush, the oil companies, and their relentless pursuit of profit at the expense of a few worthless bears. But I have to admit that the extinction of the polar bears and the lower gas prices is just a nice bonus.
The real prize these past few years has been watching Bush off namby-pamby idiots like yourselves and getting a good laugh in at all your ranting, raving, and white guilt.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
This is so wrong!!
This is so wrong!!
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
comment me back
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comment me back
anyone want to chat pA
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
drilling for oil or …
drilling for oil or obtaining resources & wildlife are not mutually exclusive ideas. the caribous where said to be threatened by the coming of the transalaska pipeline but this has been proven to not be the case as they actually thrive even more becasue of it. but of course who am I to go around confusing reality with the issues & hand this would tend to make way too much sense & stop the unessesary arguing over something that is not happening nor is going to.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
to be honest i …
to be honest i think if america could get there hands on an oil field, it wouldnt matter if they were polar bears, whales, pink elephants or harmless orphaned children….theyd go in there and push them out / kill / “help” them in a manner that would allow global dominance. but if we all use so much of the they produce, we cant really be so hypocritical as to say save the bears with one breath and low oil prices with another.aslong as they dnt it right up, it might just b ok
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
I wouldn’t hurt one …
I wouldn’t hurt one Polar Bear for a lifetime of free gasoline,let alone lower gas prices. This makes me sick.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
So what should we …
So what should we do to stop the oli companies?
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
No actually we …
No actually we Mankind have more rights. Animals don’t have rights. To say so is to diminish humanity. facts 1972 5000 Polar Bears, now we have 25,000…the bears are doing just fine.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
How about a cage …
How about a cage fight…George W. vs a polar bear?
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Well said Barbara, …
Well said Barbara, hugs Ethan
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
fuck this corrupt …
this corrupt administration. bush is protecting the oil companies. this retarded cowboy has stocks on oil companies and so does his master dickless cheney. them and corrupt republicans
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
fuck you piece of …
you piece of worthless
suck on my
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
just leave the …
just leave the polar bears alone.what they are doing they have done for a lot longer than you or me have been around. steve
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
What can you expect …
What can you expect from a bankrupt administration? No to Offshore Drilling!5*****
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Polar bears have as …
Polar bears have as much right to live on this
earth as man, why do we think we are so
special, thanks Mel for share 5*…Barbara
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
im glad you people …
im glad you people like polar bears so much that you will not mind if we go cold i the winter becouse we cant heat our homes, cant get to work becouse we cant drive. if you people would let us do some of this we will all be better off and we will save the bears. so now everybody call me names and tell me how worng i am.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
bush is a BAD …
bush is a BAD person! how could he?!
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
where were all the …
where were all the ing people 4 years ago? why wasn’t he impeached during his 1st term? , americans are soooo dumb!
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
I’m wondering if …
I’m wondering if elections will change anything.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
I am so glad that …
I am so glad that you are literate.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
yeah!!!!!!!!I am …
yeah!!!!!!!!I am going to take some action!!!!
Bush is a dumb butt president.Thank god it’s election year.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Fuck Bush!!
Bush!!
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
dumb Bush!!!!SAVE …
dumb Bush!!!!SAVE THE POLAR BEARS AND EAT UR COOKIES!!
August 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
SAVE THE POLAR …
SAVE THE POLAR BEARS is all ive got 2 say