Conservationists Sue to End Alaska's Wolf Kill Payments
Mar 28, 2007
Mywire.com
Conservation groups Tuesday filed suit in Alaska Superior Court seeking an injunction to block Governor Sarah Palin's program of paying $150 for each wolf foreleg brought to the state from any of five areas of the state where the government wants to reduce wolf populations.
Defenders of Wildlife, the Alaska Wildlife Alliance and the Alaska Chapter of the Sierra Club call the $150 payment a "bounty" and base their case on the fact that Alaska's bounty laws were repealed in 1984 and the state has no current legal authority to implement the bounties.
Announcing the payment program last week, Alaska Wildlife Conservation Division Director Matt Robus said the cash payments are "incentives to aerial control permittees, and are not bounties."
"This program is a directed management action applied in a limited fashion in specific areas, available to properly-permitted operators, and yielding useful scientific information. In contrast, the bounties of past years were broad-scale efforts to extirpate animals across large portions of their ranges," said Robus.
Defenders of Wildlife's Alaska Associate Tom Banks disagrees. "The governor is overstepping her legal authority by offering cash payments for each wolf killed by aerial gunners," he said. "That's a bounty by anyone's standards regardless of what they call it."
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Conservationists Sue to End Alaska's Wolf Kill Payments
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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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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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Alaska's Governor Says Listing Polar Bears as 'Endangered' Will Cripple Oil Industry
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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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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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SUE, SARAH, SUE
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she's pregnant with 5th child and is due sometime in May
March 6th, 2008
International Herald Tribune
JUNEAU, Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband are expecting their fifth child in May, she announced Wednesday.
Palin, 44, who just two months ago was modeling for the fashion magazine Vogue, doesn't look seven months pregnant.
"I will be delivering an addition to the first family," Palin told a stunned group of reporters.
The Republican governor, now in her second year as Alaska's chief executive, said she does not believe the pregnancy will affect her ability to run the state. Palin has been mentioned as a potential running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she's pregnant with 5th child and is due sometime in May
International Herald Tribune
JUNEAU, Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband are expecting their fifth child in May, she announced Wednesday.
Palin, 44, who just two months ago was modeling for the fashion magazine Vogue, doesn't look seven months pregnant.
"I will be delivering an addition to the first family," Palin told a stunned group of reporters.
The Republican governor, now in her second year as Alaska's chief executive, said she does not believe the pregnancy will affect her ability to run the state. Palin has been mentioned as a potential running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she's pregnant with 5th child and is due sometime in May
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Polar bear needs protection
Polar bear needs protection
January 9, 2008
KASSIE SIEGEL Seattle P.I.
Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin, a persistent advocate of increased oil and gas drilling, doesn't want the polar bear protected under the Endangered Species Act. Her position is not surprising: There is a clear conflict between saving polar bears and continuing to massively pollute the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. We can't do both.
What is surprising is Palin's attempt to cloak her position in science. She would have us believe that polar bears are thriving, with the southern Beaufort Sea population off Alaska's North Slope being stable for 20 years. Also, that the melting of the Arctic due to global warming is not foreseeable.
The international Polar Bear Specialist Group -- the pre-eminent scientific body on polar bear science -- has determined that the southern Beaufort Sea population is declining. Bears are drowning, starving and even resorting to cannibalism as their sea ice habitat rapidly melts away. Without sea ice, they are unable to hunt ice seals that make up the bulk of their diet. As the sea ice declines, fewer cubs survive, and those that do are smaller.
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Polar bear needs protection
January 9, 2008
KASSIE SIEGEL Seattle P.I.
Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin, a persistent advocate of increased oil and gas drilling, doesn't want the polar bear protected under the Endangered Species Act. Her position is not surprising: There is a clear conflict between saving polar bears and continuing to massively pollute the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. We can't do both.
What is surprising is Palin's attempt to cloak her position in science. She would have us believe that polar bears are thriving, with the southern Beaufort Sea population off Alaska's North Slope being stable for 20 years. Also, that the melting of the Arctic due to global warming is not foreseeable.
The international Polar Bear Specialist Group -- the pre-eminent scientific body on polar bear science -- has determined that the southern Beaufort Sea population is declining. Bears are drowning, starving and even resorting to cannibalism as their sea ice habitat rapidly melts away. Without sea ice, they are unable to hunt ice seals that make up the bulk of their diet. As the sea ice declines, fewer cubs survive, and those that do are smaller.
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Polar bear needs protection
As the Ice Melts, Can the Polar Bears Survive?
As the Ice Melts, Can the Polar Bears Survive?
January 9, 2008
New York Times
We must recognize the shortsighted nature of Governor Palin’s appeal not to list the polar bear as endangered. While Alaska is increasingly devastated by global warming — melting glaciers, permafrost and sea ice, as well as the severe impacts on wildlife, ecosystems and people — she seems to be working not to protect the polar bear or ultimately the citizens of her state, but to make sure nothing gets in the way of energy company plans for expansion...
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As the Ice Melts, Can the Polar Bears Survive?
January 9, 2008
New York Times
We must recognize the shortsighted nature of Governor Palin’s appeal not to list the polar bear as endangered. While Alaska is increasingly devastated by global warming — melting glaciers, permafrost and sea ice, as well as the severe impacts on wildlife, ecosystems and people — she seems to be working not to protect the polar bear or ultimately the citizens of her state, but to make sure nothing gets in the way of energy company plans for expansion...
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As the Ice Melts, Can the Polar Bears Survive?
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Palin accused of McCarthyism
Palin accused of McCarthyism
by Bill McAllister
KTUU.com
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- One lawmaker said Gov. Sara Palin is unfairly using the guilty verdict in the Kott case and the indictments of other former lawmakers to win public support for her plan on oil taxes.
Fairbanks Rep. Jay Ramras said he voted for Sarah Palin last year, and he notes that he was a big supporter of her Alaska Gas Line Inducement Act.
Ramras now has a harsh word for what the governor has been up to lately: McCarthyism.
Ramras was co-chair of the House Resources Committee in 2006, when the Petroleum Profits Tax was proposed by then Gov. Frank Murkowski.
Ramras supported the 20 percent tax rate Murkowski negotiated with North Slope producers.
Some of Ramras' colleagues from last year have been accused of, and in one case convicted for bribery involving that tax rate.
Ramras said that's something Palin is exploiting as she pushes for a higher tax rate in the special legislative session that starts October 18.
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Palin accused of McCarthyism
by Bill McAllister
KTUU.com
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- One lawmaker said Gov. Sara Palin is unfairly using the guilty verdict in the Kott case and the indictments of other former lawmakers to win public support for her plan on oil taxes.
Fairbanks Rep. Jay Ramras said he voted for Sarah Palin last year, and he notes that he was a big supporter of her Alaska Gas Line Inducement Act.
Ramras now has a harsh word for what the governor has been up to lately: McCarthyism.
Ramras was co-chair of the House Resources Committee in 2006, when the Petroleum Profits Tax was proposed by then Gov. Frank Murkowski.
Ramras supported the 20 percent tax rate Murkowski negotiated with North Slope producers.
Some of Ramras' colleagues from last year have been accused of, and in one case convicted for bribery involving that tax rate.
Ramras said that's something Palin is exploiting as she pushes for a higher tax rate in the special legislative session that starts October 18.
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Palin accused of McCarthyism
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