Sarah Palin: "Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil"

[kpete]

“The polar bear should be removed from the endangered species list because its protected status will hamper drilling for oil and gas in Alaska, the state’s Republican Governor has demanded.

Sarah Palin is suing the Bush Administration over its decision last week to place the animal under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, claiming that climate models predicting the continued loss of sea ice - the main habitat of polar bears - are unreliable.

The lawsuit came as a surprise because most of the outcry after last week’s decision came from environmental groups. Although pleased that the Bush Administration had singled out climate change as a reason to place an animal under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, the green lobby were dismayed about restrictions attached to the listing.

Yet the Governor of Alaska - a state whose residents overwhelmingly support oil exploration - is arguing that the polar bear does not need added protection, and the bear populations have increased significantly over the past 30 years because of conservation. Ms Palin maintains that any commercial development in Alaska requiring federal permits or funding would have to go through a consultation process - described by Steven Daugherty, Alaska’s assistant Attorney-General, as “basically a big time-and-money waster”. .

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....987891.ece

[Bicoastal]

1. I know Colbert would approve.

[Booster]

2. With this woman's record on being again polar bears, wolves, etc

and John McCain's 25% support of the Humane Society, the Obama team should bring these things up as often as they can. There are an awful lot of animal lovers in this country that can see that these two people are callous - if they don't support animals, they sure as Hell won't support people.