Big Oil is Killing Whales (waaaah-bulance alert)

Sierra Club ^ | 17 April 2015 | Michael Brune

[Vigilanteman]

Dear _________,

When oil companies explore for oil, they force whales to endure a noise 100 times louder than a jet engine. Every ten seconds. For weeks at a time.

Can you imagine? Seriously-can you? That's like standing next to 100 planes taking off at the same time, 8,000 times a day.

Unbelievably, it looks like the Department of the Interior could approve this kind of sonic assault on whales any day now. If they do, whales could go deaf or even die. Yes, the seismic testing Big Oil uses is disruptive enough to kill a whale. For the 400 remaining Northern Atlantic right whales-this could mean complete extinction.

Big Oil doesn't care. But we do.

Please, show your support for right whales and so many other wild creatures like them, by renewing your expired Sierra Club membership today. Help us reach our $200,000 goal before Earth Day, April 22.

http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=mfNISgNLZWgD2T1-OhwN0A

We're going to fight, tooth and nail, to save our land and oceans from Big Oil and other dirty energy polluters. On the Hill, at every town council meeting and in every court, before national and local editorial boards-we're going to outnumber, out-message, and out-organize them every step of the way. But we can't do it without you.

Your membership is the key to our success, the reason we will win or lose, and it couldn't be more needed right now. Don't let the remaining 400 right whales go silent forever. Renew your commitment to the Sierra Club before April 22.

http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=6-zROk1YOTobn4E8mLB_vA

_____________, when you renew your commitment to the Sierra Club, it goes directly towards:

* Preserving protections for gray wolves, grizzly bears, and bison under the Endangered Species Act

* Protecting the pristine Arctic and other wilderness from destructive oil drilling

* Defending the EPA and clean air and water for our communities

* Promoting the quick transition to clean, safe energy solutions like wind, solar, and geothermal

As you know, you'll also receive members-only benefits like a one-year subscription to Sierra magazine, eco-travel opportunities, automatic membership in your local chapter, and discounts on Sierra Club calendars, books and other merchandise.

Stand up today, for the last remaining right whales, for the water our families drink, and for the future of our planet.

http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=fllHbBZX2f-uKcMpxPWnZw

Thank you so much for your commitment to our wildlife and wild places.

Sincerely,

Michael Brune, Executive Director

Sierra Club | 85 2nd St San Francisco, CA 94105

[Vigilanteman]

Sorry, I must confess that I joined the Sierra Club years ago because they were giving away a cool back pack worth more than the one year membership.

I still get mailings from them from time to time begging me to renew. Sometimes, they have cool wildlife stickers which I give to my grandson. Most of the time, they give a shrill pitch for money.

This is one of the most shrill pitches. Who knew that whales were incapable of swimming away from seismic testing? Next to dolphins, aren't they supposed to be one of the most intelligent creatures in the sea?

My hearing must be slipping too. Last time I heard seismic testing, it sounded a lot more like a greatly muffled sonic boom or a gunshot with a silencer than a jet engine.

Or maybe Mr. Brune just has to get out of San Fransicko a little more often?

[molson209]

Arctic steak ,yum

[mrsmel]

Is there an interest group for the endangered white race, already a global minority? Now that, I’ll join.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Maybe we can get the whales some hearing aids. Maybe the whales should go swim some where else than next to the pump. It’s a big ocean out there.

[Kirkwood]

Petroleum ruined the whale oil industry.

[MeshugeMikey]

Brune grew up in Chadwick Beach, New Jersey, and went to school in nearby Toms River. He graduated in 1993 from West Chester University, Pennsylvania, with dual B.S. degrees...

ahaha B.S. Degrees never fit anyone any better!!!

he actually lives in nearby Alameda CA....not in Scam Francrisco oddly enough

[Jeff Chandler]

For the 400 remaining Northern Atlantic right whales-this could mean complete extinction.

All the more reason we need to drill for oil, what with the loss of blubber and all.

[dowcaet]

The Sierra Club knows how so many donors love animals so painting images of mean, greedy oil companies building oil wells in the Arctic that kills innocent whales or in the Arctic lands to displace caribou and polar bears from their natural homes tugs at the heart strings. It’s a means of getting money and staying relevant in environmental policy decisions.

[BerniesFriend]

Petroleum ruined the whale oil industry.

and video killed the radio star..

[mason-dixon]

Let me get this straight.... Liberals are so concerned that the whales hear loud sounds from Big Oil. So they want to drive Big Oil out of business, so that petroleum-based oil is not produced.

OK, so we'll have to use oil that is "natural" and "organic" and "sustainable".... Like the Whale Oil we previously used. So the poor Whales will not have to listen to loud sounds.... because they will be hunted and killed nearly to extinction.

Is that what those nature-loving liberals want?

[Vigilanteman]

Yes it did, quite possibly saving them from extinction.

Extreme environmentalists, however, believe that the sustainable human population which the planet can support is around a half billion people because, until the industrial revolution, it fluctuated in a very narrow range around that point.

If they got the coveted political power which they so crave, they would decide which half billion of us were worth keeping on the planet. Scary thought.

[bray]

Fine, stop driving or traveling using fossil fuels. Put your money where your mouth is.

[BuffaloJack]

Yeah, but does whale meat taste good?

[Vaduz]

Or as they call it one big a$$ tuna.

[mountainlion]

So they mount devices on whales? I suspect that sound dissipates with the square of the distance so the farther away from a transmitter the less the sound.

[Vigilanteman]

Had some when I lived in Japan. No, it wasn't very good. Of course, I ate the cheap stuff which included pressed by products in a sausage like configuration which we derisively labeled “whale dick.”

This was during my first stint there in the 1970s. When I returned 10 years later, whale products were hard to find. Japan seriously reduced their harvest by then in response to international criticism.

[CSM]

cool! Let’s quit using oil and go back to the preceeding technology for providing light at night. You know, burning whale blubber!

Idiots like this author forget that oil is what saved the whales!

[onedoug]

Nothing like all the racket of WWII.

[Bob434]

greenie earth firsters are killing birds

]]Windmills Killing Endangered Birds]]

[[It took a while, but 440,000 eagle, hawk, falcon, crane, egret, goose, and other bird corpses finally made a pile so large that even the... administration could no longer ignore the stink.]]

http://www.newsmax.com/Reagan/Windmills-wind-solar-obama/2013/11/26/id/538744/

[apostoli]

Yep hyperhipocrites ... Ever been to a Sierra Klub meeting? Never seen so many SUV’s!