Oil Companies Protected if They Harm Polar Bears

November 92009

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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25 Responses

  1. Stevofxx Says:

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

  2. YoHuckleberry Says:

    It’s not “America” …
    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.

  3. FreshSqueezedLoyalty Says:

    So to sum it all up …
    So to sum it all up, you’re a troll.
    I see.

  4. ProjectErik Says:

    more ways world …
    more ways world government is destroying the planet. Pigs.

  5. tristanlist Says:

    I resoundingly …
    I resoundingly support Bush, the oil companies, and their relentless pursuit of profit at the expense of a few worthless bears. But I have to admit that the extinction of the polar bears and the lower gas prices is just a nice bonus.

    The real prize these past few years has been watching Bush off namby-pamby idiots like yourselves and getting a good laugh in at all your ranting, raving, and white guilt.

  6. sngrmnsthsm Says:

    This is so wrong!!
    This is so wrong!!

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  8. circusboy90210 Says:

    drilling for oil or …
    drilling for oil or obtaining resources & wildlife are not mutually exclusive ideas. the caribous where said to be threatened by the coming of the transalaska pipeline but this has been proven to not be the case as they actually thrive even more becasue of it. but of course who am I to go around confusing reality with the issues & hand this would tend to make way too much sense & stop the unessesary arguing over something that is not happening nor is going to.

  9. LeeMargett Says:

    to be honest i …
    to be honest i think if america could get there hands on an oil field, it wouldnt matter if they were polar bears, whales, pink elephants or harmless orphaned children….theyd go in there and push them out / kill / “help” them in a manner that would allow global dominance. but if we all use so much of the they produce, we cant really be so hypocritical as to say save the bears with one breath and low oil prices with another.aslong as they dnt it right up, it might just b ok

  10. ProtoCosmos Says:

    I wouldn’t hurt one …
    I wouldn’t hurt one Polar Bear for a lifetime of free gasoline,let alone lower gas prices. This makes me sick.

  11. OliI0305 Says:

    So what should we …
    So what should we do to stop the oli companies?

  12. ObediahO Says:

    No actually we …
    No actually we Mankind have more rights. Animals don’t have rights. To say so is to diminish humanity. facts 1972 5000 Polar Bears, now we have 25,000…the bears are doing just fine.

  13. fendermac Says:

    How about a cage …
    How about a cage fight…George W. vs a polar bear?

  14. Ethan2Rock Says:

    Well said Barbara, …
    Well said Barbara, hugs Ethan

  15. joker0187 Says:

    fuck this corrupt …
    this corrupt administration. bush is protecting the oil companies. this retarded cowboy has stocks on oil companies and so does his master dickless cheney. them and corrupt republicans

  16. joker0187 Says:

    fuck you piece of …
    you piece of worthless shit
    suck on my bitch

  17. spbsteve Says:

    just leave the …
    just leave the polar bears alone.what they are doing they have done for a lot longer than you or me have been around. steve

  18. Richocaster Says:

    What can you expect …
    What can you expect from a bankrupt administration? No to Offshore Drilling!5*****

  19. Rumpep Says:

    Polar bears have as …
    Polar bears have as much right to live on this
    earth as man, why do we think we are so
    special, thanks Mel for share 5*…Barbara

  20. vinmsss Says:

    im glad you people …
    im glad you people like polar bears so much that you will not mind if we go cold i the winter becouse we cant heat our homes, cant get to work becouse we cant drive. if you people would let us do some of this we will all be better off and we will save the bears. so now everybody call me names and tell me how worng i am.

  21. naturepuppy Says:

    bush is a BAD …
    bush is a BAD person! how could he?!

  22. lavakava Says:

    where were all the …
    where were all the people 4 years ago? why wasn’t he impeached during his 1st term? damn, americans are soooo dumb!

  23. RealPublic Says:

    I’m wondering if …
    I’m wondering if elections will change anything.

  24. the2006rookie Says:

    I am so glad that …
    I am so glad that you are literate.

  25. Livinglifetofullest Says:

    yeah!!!!!!!!I am …
    yeah!!!!!!!!I am going to take some action!!!!
    Bush is a dumb butt president.Thank god it’s election year.

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