Sarah Palin Attacks Beluga Whales - From Center for Biological Diversity

[YankeyMCC]

Alaska seeks to block U.S. protections for belugas

By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Five months after suing to keep polar bears off the U.S. threatened species list, Alaska's government said Wednesday it plans to issue a similar challenge to block federal protections for a struggling population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet, a mature oil-producing basin.

Former vice presidential hopeful Gov. Sarah Palin said the energy-rich state believes the Endangered Species Act protections for belugas announced in October by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are unwarranted...

Beluga whales swimming in Cook Inlet, a glacier-fed saltwater channel running from Anchorage to the Gulf of Alaska, numbered as high as 1,300 three decades ago, but has dropped to about 375 since then, according to NOAA.

Alaska's announcement it would challenge the endangered listing drew ire from environmental groups.

"Once again Governor Palin has demonstrated either a complete lack of understanding or lack of concern over the plight of endangered species," Brendan Cummings, oceans program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement Wednesday...

The state and several municipal governments and business groups argue that an endangered listing will hamper business in Alaska's most densely populated region...

[muntrv]

1. Carribou barbie loves oil slicks. Exxon Valdeez made her climax?

[ncteechur]

2. can she please just go away--what a waste of carbon

[Peregrine Took]

3. If I were her adviser I would tell her that the ONLY chance she would ever

have to win national office would become the biggest environmentalist in politics.

I'd tell her to go on a crash fact finding mission all over the world - have a huge "awakening" and do a 100% total about face.

Of course that would never happen as her new enlightened viewpoint would crash head-on with rethug ideas about raping the planet and laughing all the way to the bank.

[MarcMus]

5. She's at it Again

Sarah Palin has covered her governor's website with a thing against the media. She is clearly not apable of separating her personal and public life. How embarassing. What is the fastest way to make her go away.

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[Confusious]

4. I lived there 20 years

The state and several municipal governments and business groups argue that an endangered listing will hamper business in Alaska's most densely populated region

There is no business that this will hamper, except for oil. I don't think fisherman are going to be able to pull in a beluga whale.