Sarah Palin Announces Her Intention to Sue to Block Protections of Endangered Whales

[kpete]

Challenge to Beluga Listing Decision
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-06

Governor Announces Challenge to Beluga Listing Decision; Provides Federal Agencies with Notice of Intent to Sue

January 14, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin announced today that the State of Alaska filed a notice of intent to file a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s decision to list beluga whales in Cook Inlet as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

“The State of Alaska has worked cooperatively with the federal government to protect and conserve beluga whales in Cook Inlet,” said Governor Palin. “This listing decision didn’t take those efforts into account as required by law.”

The notice of the state’s intent to sue was sent to the Secretary of Commerce and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). It asserts that the listing decision should be withdrawn due to failure to adequately consider conservation or protection efforts by Alaska, failure to provide to Alaska’s agencies an adequate written justification for portions of NMFS’ final rule not consistent with the agencies’ comments, failure to properly document or support its determination that the beluga whales in Cook Inlet comprise a distinct population segment and failure to provide a public review and comment period on significant studies and documentation used to support the listing.

“With this notice of intent, we are informing the federal agencies that, unless corrected, we will file suit due to the decision’s failure to comply with provisions of the Endangered Species Act and the Administrative Procedure Act,” said Attorney General Talis Colberg. “Failure to consider protection measures already in place and failure to document and support key elements of this decision are major flaws in the final rule.”

more at:
http://gov.state.ak.us/archive.php?id=1602&type=1
via:
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/01/15/sarah-palin-announces-her-intention-to-sue-to-block-protections-of-endangered-whales/

[DainBramaged]

1. She needs to be tied to the bow of a crab boat for a day in the Bering Straits

then she can see Russia real good.

[Jamastiene]

2. I sincerely hope she loses that lawsuit.

x(

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Really fighting for your state, eh, Sarah?

Or are you simply overcompensating for your neglect of your state during (and after) last year's election? Or are you trying to feel like you actually earned everything that you took from the citizens of Alaska (i.e. per diems) and/or Republican National Committee (i.e. clothes)?

:eyes:

See Sarah sue. Sue Sarah sue!!!!

[Kajsa]

4. So, she's saying the lawsuit will be based on

"the decision’s failure to comply with provisions of the Endangered Species Act and the Administrative Procedure Act,"?

I seriously doubt that.

Ms. Palin, is there ANY listing on the Endangered Species List
you DON'T object to?

I didn't think so-

This woman's bloodlust has no limits.

[NeedleCast]

5. What does this mad-woman have against animals?

Yeesh...

[Cetacea]

7. She wishes she had their brains.

She is doing to this just to stay in the news. I hate her just the same.

[Cetacea]

6. Now she is REALLY beginning to piss me off

I will do anything I can to fight her on this.

[bigtree]

8. they want to stop the Native American hunters who have seen a decline in whale populations

. . . not because of any of their hunting methods, but because of pollution and activity resulting from the oil rigs and tankers offshore.

All this is about is a move to stifle the whalers' original complaints against the oil companies.

They do need protection from the oil companies, but not fromthe Native American whalers.

[Cetacea]

9. She'll do whatever she can to make sure she's in the news

Even for the inauguration.

[spanone]

10. isn't she charming?

:sarcasm:

fugger

[tridim]

11. Let's hope her species becomes endangered soon.

I don't want her hunted, but I do want her tranquilized, tagged and thrown into a cage at the Anchorage Zoo.

[peekaloo]

12. wailin' and blubberin'

the two areas of her expertise.

[Dukkha]

13. She needs a Sea Shepherd butyric acid stink bomb tossed in her office

that might shut her up for a while

[CrispyQ]

14. Sarah, your 15 minutes are over.

Shut up & go away.

[wiggs]

15. She wants to be able to shoot whales from helicopters. nt