Posted on 12/04/2008 10:16:34 AM PST by presidio9
A conservation group is going to court to force the federal government to consider adding the Pacific walrus to the list of threatened species.
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Wednesday for failing to act on a petition seeking protection for walruses under the Endangered Species Act.
Walruses are threatened by global warming that melts Arctic sea ice, according to the group, one of the parties that successfully petitioned to list polar bears as threatened. The group also has filed petitions to protect Arctic seals.
The walrus petition was filed in February. The Fish and Wildlife Service was required by law to decide by May 8 whether the petition had merit, which would trigger a more thorough review and a preliminary decision after 12 months. The agency missed the deadline.
Rebecca Noblin, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, said the delay would harm walruses.
"Every day that goes by without protecting the walrus, we're emitting more greenhouse gases, accelerating the ice melt," Noblin said.
"In addition to the climate change, the other main threat is oil and gas development that continues to go forward without any consultation regarding walrus," she said.
Fish and Wildlife spokesman Bruce Woods said Wednesday the agency anticipates making a decision on the petition soon but has
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What this reminds me of: Cases some years back by left wing lawyers arguing they were justified in trying to close down military bases because of the threat of nuclear anihilation.
Now the left has found a kook legal wedge that is working. And we have a political class that is fostering this zaniness.
Is this an opportunity to try the facts of AGW?
The actual target is oil/gas development.
Ku-ku-ca-choo.
Quite a boner! Maybe that lady environmentalist could use/abuse this!
‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.’
- The Walrus and The Carpenter, Lewis Carroll.
OOPS. I thought this was a Ted Kennedy article. My bad.
Hey, don’t mind that the Arctic sea ice is GROWING: http://www.iceagenow.com/Arctic_Sea_Ice_Growing_at_Fastest_Rate_in_Recorded_History.htm
Facts don’t matter to leftscum, though, do they? (Sorry for stating the glaringly obvious.)
I am the walrus!.....
Goo goo g’joob!
Another atempt by “environmentalists” to stop oil and gas drilling.
The polar bear listing was just the tip of the iceberg.
Below is listed a few names being considered by the Obama administration for the secretary position at the Dept. of the Interior, and EPA administrator:
EPA — former Sierra Club president and environmental activist Lisa Renstrom, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Pace University law professor and chairman of the Waterkeeper Alliance, another advocacy group.
Interior — John Leshy, and Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders of Wildlife. Clark is a former Secretary under the Clinton Administration.
LOL!!! Chukchi Sea??? is just north of the Behring Strait...
Which is ALREADY iced over this year!!!
Compare Dec. 3 last year to Dec. 3 This year:
http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=12&fd=03&fy=2007&sm=12&sd=03&sy=2008
Just looked quickly at John Leshy, here's some political donations by him.
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