Posted on 04/29/2008 8:22:52 AM PDT by tobyhill
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken agreed with conservation groups that the department missed a Jan. 9 deadline for a decision. She rejected a government request for a further delay and ordered it to act by May 15.
"Defendants have been in violation of the law requiring them to publish the listing determination for nearly 120 days," the judge, based in Oakland, Calif., wrote in a decision issued late Monday. "Other than the general complexity of finalizing the rule, Defendants offer no specific facts that would justify the delay, much less further delay."
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Oh God, here we go again. The ENVIRO-NUT JOBS and the “enviro-beauracracy” are at it again, feathering their nest with more insanity and fraudulent regulations.
Fine, they push and they should say, “No. Not endangered.”
We’ve boxed ourselves in with loads of these “well meaning” laws and the politicians have no gumption to repeal the laws. Now they are going to use Global Warming and these laws to start dismantling industrial civilization. And people will all sitting around mumbling “well it’s bad for the polar bears”.
"Oh boy. I hope I have enough minutes left in 16 days, and coverage here isn't too good either."
I’ve got an idea. How about we wait for data? Do a population estimate, then wait a couple of years and do another?
You’re welcome, no problem, call me if you need anything.
BTT
Or....maybe that was God's plan?? :-)
Wilken, Claudia Ann, Born 1949 in Minneapolis, MN. Federal Judicial Service: Judge, U. S. District Court. Northern District of California.Nominated by ....
(drum roll)....
(are ya ready)...
William J. Clinton
The Interior Department should come back today with a simple answer .. NO.
(now go pound sand judge)
I seem to recall a dinosaur on the endangered list (alligators).
LOL! It isn’t a party without Lootie!
Interior is infiltrated with eco idiots. Several years ago I had a conversation with some folks in the USFWS, and they told me this, gave me specific examples of these eco freaks’ efforts to hijack this agency.
When I edited an outdoor magazine in the 1990s, I had (off the record) sources inside the USFWS that kept me informed about these infiltrator’s plans to turn fish hatcheries (created by law to mitigate loss of recreational fisheries from the building of dams)into nurseries to house endangered species. The plans at the time (under the Clinton administration) were to use all funding for this, at the cost of recreational fisheries. They also planned to close several hatcheries, and use only the ones suitable for endangered species propagation. I actually received copies of memos from inside the USFWS that proved this, then had top officials with the agency deny it.
And it irks me to hear a reporter call “Animal Rights” and “Earth Firsters” “conservationists.” These folks haven’t “conserved” a thing, except endless litigation taking time and money from federal and state wildlife managers that could be used to actually manage and preserve WL.
Like another poster said, this effort to have the polar bear listed is not about wildlife preservation, but about ending hunting, and drilling for oil.
GREAT point Southerngl.
There’s no shortage of gators, but at one time, when the feds were going to delist them in Louisiana, the same groups involved in this lawsuit screamed bloody murder.
Anybody else remember the gas pipeline in the 1970s that was going to destroy the caribou herds in Alaska?
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