Oil Companies Protected if They Harm Polar Bears

PlusOil Companies Protected if They Harm Polar BearsOil Companies Protected if They Harm Polar BearsThe Associated PressThe Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies. The companies are planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska. (June 14)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] [Notes:Dateline Washington][Notes:NATS UP "Today I am listing the polar bear as a threatened species under the endagered specis act"] That was just four weeks ago.But now the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy ... and potentially harm ... Polar bears.The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies.Those companies plan to search for oil and gas off the northwestern coast of Alaska. That's where the government auctioned off oil leases to ConocoPhillips ... Shell Oil and five other companies for more than two-and-a-half billion dollars.The new wildlife service regulations mean it will be O-K legally if `small numbers' of polar bears or Pacific walruses are harmed over the next five years.But environmentalists say the new regulations give oil companies a blank cheque to harass the polar bear.Just over ten percent of polar bears in the Arctic live in and around the Alaskan coast. ___ ___, The Associated Press.(****END****)

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[sngrmnsthsm]

This is so wrong!!

[Livinglifetofullest]

yeah!!!!!!!!I am going to take some action!!!!

Bush is a dumb butt president.Thank god it's election year.

[DoctorNambu]

@normalguyable stfu who cares about animals is survival of the fitest get that ok.

what are they doing for us? Tell me one good thing that a polar bear has done for you really....moron

[tubeviewerthree]

I wonder if former president bush would like an oil rig up his ass.

The Alaskan Valdez incident could have been averted if lobbyists didn't stall the law for double hulled tankers. Then again the ships caption was drunk and sleeping leaving an inexperienced pilot at the helm. They should have a master pilot that knows the area move those tankers in and out of the sound. They have a master pilot move all ships in and out of the Los Angeles port.

[coffeebutch]

Lame on you! this is how industries exploiting the lives of nature motherland.

[freedmanjoey]

@WWAHP well shmuck i disagree i think mr.bush did well for the usa thank you

[normalguyable]

go vegan and save all animals!

[jeffdoute]

Hey BP it looks like you missed a couple of Polar Bears.... You will never get away with it again.

[badtripsrbad]

I'm all for taking steps to protect our environment that for the time being is our only means of industrial survival, but it's not immoral if you don't want to. Why attack men whose productive purpose in life is to be productive by selling oil? Because they think?

[Stevofxx]

LOL at 1:00. Thats the funniest thing ever.

[YoHuckleberry]

It's not "America" doing this it's the oil companies. You people that don't live here think we're all a bunch of fat, loud-mouthed, money hording, war mongers and the truth is that you just don't know. Don't just take us as what you see on the news every night.