I figure if a story has a headline of “Bush gives OK for oil companies to harm polar bears”, it’s appropriate for me to make an equally hyperbolic headline for my post. Now let’s get to the actual story, shall we?
This month, the administration gave permission for companies to “annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas,” the Associated Press reported Saturday.
The article reported the Fish and Wildlife Service as having already issued regulations for legal protection of seven oil companies with a provision that only “small numbers” of polar bears and Pacific walruses be harmed in the process.
“The oil and gas industry in operating under the kind of rules they have operated under for 15 years has not been a threat to the species,” H. Dale Hall, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s director, told The Associated Press on Friday. “It was the ice melting and the habitat going away that was a threat to the species over everything else.”
You know what? I think I’m going to start sending my gas bills to these environmental groups. I think paying my gas bills are the least they can do, seeing as they are contributing to them being so high.
