[soccer_maniac]

Has the judge been bought with petro-dollars?

[thackney]

with environmentalist dollars

[Vigilanteman]

This Jim Dandy judge obviously missed the Wild Kingdom Special circa 1994 when Mutual of Omaha went back to see how the caribou were doing after the first pipeline was built.

What they found was that the caribou loved the pipeline. It provided rudimentary shelter for calving in the spring. The oil flow through the pipeline actually raised the temperature of the immediate vicinity by a degree or a fraction thereof. The caribou that hung around the pipeline raised it further with their body temperatures and with their peeing and pooping. The peeing and pooping created a whole new mini ecosystem in the area which attracted more caribou who diversified the herd and increased both the number and vitality thereof.

Unspoken conclusion: Build it and they will come.