Navy, environmentalists settle sonar lawsuit

AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer ^ | 12/28/8 | AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer

[SmithL]

HONOLULU, (AP) -- The Navy has settled a lawsuit filed by environmentalists challenging its use of sonar in hundreds of submarine-hunting exercises around the world.

The Navy said Saturday the deal reached with the Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups requires it to continue to research how sonar affects whales and other marine mammals.

It doesn't require sailors to adopt additional measures to protect the animals when they use sonar.

The agreement comes one month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Navy in another sonar lawsuit the NRDC filed.

[SmithL]

[max americana]

>But last month, in a ruling on a NRDC lawsuit challenging the Navy’s sonar training exercises off Southern California, the Supreme Court ruled that military training trumps protecting whales.

Chief Justice Roberts wrote forcing the Navy to deploy an inadequately trained anti-submarine fleet would jeopardize the safety of the fleet. He also wrote it was unclear how many marine mammals the Navy’s sonar exercises might harm.

It’s nice to know that W’s pick in CJ Roberts was a great one.

[BIGLOOK]

In a separate case, Whales in Hawaii sue environmentalists for stalking, lewd and lascivious acts and disturbing the peace.

[Slings and Arrows]

Nice to see the good guys win one for a change.

[LukeL]

The President should simply declare we no longer have a submarine fleet and disavow any knowledge of any submarine activity much like we do with Delta Force.

[Robert A Cook PE]

So, the Navy agrees to the enviro’s extortion of “continuing to “study” the issue” ....

[Libertarian444]

So, the Navy agrees to the enviro’s extortion of “continuing to “study” the issue” ....

These guys would be proud:

[Robert A Cook PE]

So the one topless enviro chick is torturing the whales with her cello ....

While the other topless enviro-check refuses to listen and protects her own ears.

[BIGLOOK]

Never heard a report of a sub/whale collision in all my time over here.......but there have been a lot of collisions with the whale watchers and environmentalists' boats.

Whales and sub drivers are smart and environmentalists are dumb.

[rwa265]

Unfortunately, there have been submarine collisions with a Japanese fishing boat, an undersea mountain, and a Japanese cargo vessel.

[deaconjim]

Whale / sub collisions do happen, and from what I’ve been told, it makes the whales really mad.

[Elle Bee]

those are democrat whales thinking they can mate with the submarines

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[Malsua]

Any surprise that the one with the headphones has a tramp stamp?