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Navy, environmentalists settle sonar lawsuit
AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer ^
| 12/28/8
| AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 12/27/2008 11:35:55 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: lawsuit; navy; sonar; usnavy; whales
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posted on
12/27/2008 11:35:55 PM PST
by
SmithL
To: Doohickey; judicial meanz; submarinerswife; PogySailor; chasio649; gobucks; Bottom_Gun; Dog Gone; ..
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posted on
12/27/2008 11:37:05 PM PST
by
SmithL
(Drill Dammit!)
To: SmithL
>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.
To: SmithL
In a separate case, Whales in Hawaii sue environmentalists for stalking, lewd and lascivious acts and disturbing the peace.
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posted on
12/27/2008 11:51:03 PM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
To: SmithL
Nice to see the good guys win one for a change.
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posted on
12/27/2008 11:52:11 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Every few generations the really, really bad ideas come back around for another go."--Howard Tayler)
To: SmithL
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.
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posted on
12/28/2008 12:03:35 AM PST
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: SmithL
So, the Navy agrees to the enviro’s extortion of “continuing to “study” the issue” ....
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posted on
12/28/2008 6:44:05 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
So, the Navy agrees to the enviros extortion of continuing to study the issue ....These guys would be proud:
To: Lazamataz; sionnsar; patton; neverdem; BIGLOOK
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.
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posted on
12/28/2008 8:51:56 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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.
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posted on
12/28/2008 9:37:53 AM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
To: BIGLOOK
Unfortunately, there have been submarine collisions with a Japanese fishing boat, an undersea mountain, and a Japanese cargo vessel.
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posted on
12/28/2008 10:02:55 AM PST
by
rwa265
(Christ, My Cornerstone)
To: BIGLOOK
Whale / sub collisions do happen, and from what I’ve been told, it makes the whales really mad.
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posted on
12/29/2008 3:46:50 AM PST
by
deaconjim
(Because He lives...)
To: deaconjim
those are democrat whales thinking they can mate with the submarines
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posted on
12/29/2008 4:15:07 AM PST
by
Elle Bee
To: BIGLOOK
Any surprise that the one with the headphones has a tramp stamp?
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posted on
12/29/2008 4:21:45 AM PST
by
Malsua
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