Companies get OK to annoy polar bears - Democratic Underground

flashl

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Mon Jun-16-08 12:31 PM
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Companies get OK to annoy polar bears

Source: Yahoo (AP)

WASHINGTON - Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.

The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if "small numbers" of polar bears or Pacific walruses are incidentally harmed by their activities over the next five years.

Environmentalists said the new regulations give oil companies a blank check to harass the polar bear.

About 2,000 of the 25,000 polar bears in the Arctic live in and around the Chukchi Sea, where the government in February auctioned off oil leases to ConocoPhillips Co., Shell Oil Co. and five other companies for $2.6 billion. Over objections from environmentalists and members of Congress, the sale occurred before the bear was classified as threatened in May.

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dipsydoodle

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Mon Jun-16-08 12:33 PM
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1. Have they given permission

Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 12:33 PM by edwardlindy

for the polar bears to eat the offendors too ?

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DangerDave921

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Mon Jun-16-08 12:34 PM
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2. Annoy?

What the hell does it mean to annoy a polar bear? Is that teasing? Playing loud music when it's trying to sleep? Holding out a tennis ball and then yanking it back when it tries to get it?

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Indenturedebtor

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Mon Jun-16-08 12:51 PM
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3. I'm sure annoy translates to "Kill"

Let nothing stand in the way of bloated corporate profits!

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XemaSab

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Tue Jun-17-08 04:18 AM
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10. Part of an incidental take permit

"Take" means harass, annoy, harm, injure, kill, and so forth.

Incidental take refers to action that results in take as a part of conducting business or completing a project.

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wvbygod

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Mon Jun-16-08 01:07 PM
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4. Are birds annoyed by windmills that chop them to pieces?

Who the hell comes up with these annoying titles?

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damntexdem

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Mon Jun-16-08 04:24 PM
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6. Someone needs to ask them.

Meanwhile, however, thank God for the windmills, generating clean energy.

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damntexdem

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Mon Jun-16-08 04:23 PM
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5. They should get permission only if the CEOs do the annoying in person.

And no weapons allowed. ;-)

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DBoon

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Mon Jun-16-08 10:13 PM
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9. Can polar bears handle a high-fat diet?

might give them digestive problems

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and-justice-for-all

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Mon Jun-16-08 06:30 PM
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7. sick.

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DBoon

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Mon Jun-16-08 10:12 PM
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8. Aren't polar bears very hungry now?

I think an oil company CEO might make a nice, juicy, rich meal for a polar bear that felt really annoyed.

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Solly Mack

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Tue Jun-17-08 04:26 AM
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11. So typically Bush....

So expected...so true to form..so keeping in character...

and yet there are those who claim they are shocked and surprised by his actions...that they had no idea he would act in such a way...if they only knew then...

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