Alaska's Governor Says Listing Polar Bears as 'Endangered' Will Cripple Oil Industry

Alaska's Governor Says Listing Polar Bears as 'Endangered' Will Cripple Oil Industry
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Fox News

NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Meanwhile, to Alaska — that state planning to sue the federal government for listening — or listing the polar bear as an endangered species, a move the state says could endanger its oil and gas industries.

On the phone right now, Alaska's Republican governor, Sarah Palin.

Governor, thank you for joining us.

Where does this stand, Governor?

GOV. SARAH PALIN, R-ALASKA: Well, we are notifying the feds that it is our intent to sue here.

We certainly disagree with their findings that — a healthy population right now of polar bear, it's increased dramatically over the last 30 years, because the Marine Mammal Protection Act already protects this magnificent species. We disagree with their ruling that listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act will provide any more protections for the species...




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SUE, SARAH, SUE

SUE, SARAH, SUE
New York Post
May 27, 2008

The polar bears are doing just fine, thank you very much.

So says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who announced last week that her state would sue to block Washington from listing the animals as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act.

And it's a good thing, too - because the new bear-population protections mask what may be the most serious threat to American economic might in decades.

Yes, polar bears.

The polar bear, you see, marks the first species on the "threatened" list whose supposed predicament is linked directly to global warming.

The current Alaskan polar-bear population may be near an all-time high.

But Interior Department computer models - such as they are - project widespread melting of the polar ice the bears need to hunt.

And that's a big problem, given the near-limitless powers embedded in the Endangered Species Act...

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