WTF?!? For Keystone Pipeline-"Killing Wolves Is "Regrettable" BUT "an accepted scientific approach"

The National Wildlife Federation conservationist said the wolf cull was one more reason that Americans should oppose their country’s growing consumption from the oil sands.

“These beautiful animals – their wild kin – are going to be poisoned with strychnine, they’re going to be shot out of helicopters, all to feed our addiction to dirty oil,” he said.

The federal and Alberta governments say the wolf program is just one possible tool to be used in a national effort to protect the boreal caribou that, they say, is threatened not only by industrial encroachment on their habitat but by increased predation.

Environment Minister Peter Kent has acknowledged that wolves may have to be killed in northeastern Alberta and said that is “regrettable” but an accepted scientific approach. A spokesman said Friday it will be up to the province to implement and manage the plan once it has been finalized this spring.

more:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/oil-sands-wolf-cull-plan-ripped-apart-on-us-show/article2372318/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/18/1075432/-Tar-Sands-Wolf-Cull