Judge bans Navy from using sonar off Southern California - LAT

Source: Los Angeles Times

Judge bans Navy from using sonar off Southern California

By Kenneth R. Weiss, Times Staff Writer
2:15 PM PDT, August 6, 2007

A federal judge in Los Angeles banned the U.S. Navy
from using high-powered sonar in nearly a dozen
upcoming training exercises off Southern California,
ruling today that its use could "cause irreparable
harm to the environment."

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper issued the
preliminary injunction after rejecting the Navy's
request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Natural
Resources Defense Council.

The lawsuit, along with a similar one filed by the
California Coastal Commission, argues for broader
safeguards to protect marine mammals from powerful
blasts of mid-frequency sonar that have been linked
elsewhere to mass die-offs of whales and panicked
behavior.

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Cooper said it was never easy to balance the interests
of wildlife with those of national security. But in this
case, she said, the potential harm to whales and other
marine life outweighs the harm to the Navy from
forsaking sonar use off Southern California for a
limited period of time.

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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sonar7aug07,0,2692726.story

Executive Order allowing them to use sonar anytime, anywhere for national security reasons. And he'll classify everything remotely related to it.

These criminals stop at nothing to get their way.

sad but true.

"I have conclusive proof that terrorists have been trained to ride dolphins bare-back. We need this sonar to stop these evildoers."

If sonar is outlawed, only people who will piss all over the judicial system just because they can will have sonar.

Hmmm. It's not as catchy as the original.