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The polar bears made the list! I can’t believe the Bush administration finally listened to the courts. Dirk Kempthorne, Secy. of the Interior, begrudgingly gave in. He made it emphatic that this will in no way affect efforts to drill in the Arctic. He is one of Bush’s handpicked cronies that continuously pits the environment, animals, and their habitat against industry.

Kempthorne’s remark that he wasn’t stalling on adding the bears to the endangered list in lieu of the sales of big oil leases is a crock if you followed the story. Heck, he looked to put the bears on the list way back in 2006. http://www.doi.gov/news/06_News_Releases/061227.html. What ever took so long?

Even though the bears made the list, the problems are not over. Prepare for more slight of hand dealings by the Bush Administation.

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http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2008/2008-05-14-10.asp

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 8:37 pm and is filed under Alaska, Animals and Extinction, Animals in Peril, Arctic Oil Drilling, Bush Administration, Conservation, Dept. of the Interior, Endangered Species, Environmentalism, Federal Government, Global Warming, Nature, Ocean Pollution, Oil Spills, Polar Bears, Politics, Secy. Kempthorne. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.