Disturbed Walruses

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN0843994520080708
Suit seeks ban on oil companies disturbing wildlife
Tue Jul 8, 2008 7:16pm EDT
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Two environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn new federal regulations that grants permission to oil companies working in the Chukchi Sea to disturb the polar bears and walrus that live there.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, challenges regulations issued last month by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that allow "incidental takes" of the animals, meaning permission to disturb or accidentally harass them as long as such actions do not result in physical injury or death.
Tuesday's lawsuit, filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Environment, is the latest volley in legal challenges over protections for polar bears and other animals from expanded oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska.

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[ozinba]

Dig slightly deeper mate, you'll find that environmentalists have human needs most at heart. (the planet will always go on without us). Check out what shell did to protesters in Nigeria. Watch Crude impact. It will open your eyes to some human impact in Ecuador, children condemned just to ensure a few cents off for consumers in the first world. Peak oil is real, get real ready!Nature is more complex and resilient than anything we've ever created.Preserving it is our only chance to learn from it.

[SteveWrathall]

And what would be the average living standard in Nigeria if they DIDN'T have oil? Yes "Peak Oil" is real (see my other vid), all the more reason to bring on line supplies in order to buy time to develop alternatives.

[ozinba]

People have lived for milenia in the Nigerian delta, and the Ecuadorian rainforest, these people and their descendants have lost forever their "standard of living". Infant mortality soared. We got the oil, they got the toxic muck. We don't have the right to destroy anymore. Let's adapt NOW to the future.

[SteveWrathall]

This romanticised view that pre-industrial people led some idyllic Edenic existence, flies in the face of indisputable archaeological, anthropological and historical evidence that their lives were ruled by continuous hunger, violence, cannibalism and zero women's rights.