APNewsBreak: Companies get OK to annoy polar bears

The moron's administration just can't surprise me anymore.

Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.

The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if "small numbers" of polar bears or Pacific walruses are incidentally harmed by their activities over the next five years.

Environmentalists said the new regulations give oil companies a blank check to harass the polar bear.

Yes the bears will be coming around and are dangerous for workers, but why not just require the oil companies to fence off their sites? They can afford it.

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A Very Endangered Species

Its getting to be a drag trying to snag fish
with no equipment. Maybe this will help.
Now if I can just find a fucking net.
I'm being extremely flippant here, but the other article is serious.

I must say the headline fits this entry too.

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Records: U.S. agency did look at threats to polars bears

Liar, liar pants on fire. Do you believe anything the US government says? Fool!

Contrary to Interior Department claims, officials completed a review of studies examining how human activities were affecting Arctic warming and endangering polar bears' survival less than a week before proposing to list the bears as threatened with extinction, according to department documents.

The "Range-Wide Status Review of the Polar Bear," posted on a government Web site, was completed six days before Secretary Dirk Kempthorne proposed adding polar bears to the endangered-species list Dec. 27. It cites several studies on how greenhouse-gas emissions are affecting the Arctic and how cuts in carbon dioxide could slow the pace of warming there.

None of those citations made it into the final listing proposal, and the department for months has denied that such an analysis occurred.

They even lie about doing their jobs competently.

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