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	Suing the Belugas?

KaylinQ

1-30-2009 12:10 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b1c0cf1f-1cd4-41c0-90f5-a3b26a52cc5e/D6E37777-809C-4618-A6DE-D11A1212C1E0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/2009/01/suing-the-belugas.html" href="http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/2009/01/suing-the-belugas.html" style="font-size: 11px;">montereybayaquarium.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/2009/01/suing-the-belugas.html"><P>Can't help but steal <A title="beluga whale editorial" target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/opinion/29thu3.html?ref=opinion" linkindex="24">a great headline</A> from the <EM>New York Times</EM> editorial page, in its commentary on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's lawsuit that would remove endangered species protection for beluga whales in <A title="Defenders of Wildlife beluga page" target="_blank" href="http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/beluga_whale.php" linkindex="25" set="yes">Alaska's Cook Inlet</A>. (You can <A title="ABC Alaska News" target="_blank" href="http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/local/37658369.html" linkindex="26">see the belugas</A> in this ABC Alaska News clip.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/2009/01/suing-the-belugas.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/img/8CB8D0C3-4A06-4749-85D8-6E429690931A" alt="Beluga noaa" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/2009/01/suing-the-belugas.html"><P><A title="Palin's beluga press release" target="_blank" href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php?id=1602" linkindex="31">In preparing to sue</A>, Gov. Palin has challenged the science behind the listing, cited state efforts to help the belugas, and raised concerns about the possible impact the listing will have on economic development in Cook Inlet.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/2009/01/suing-the-belugas.html"><P><A title="L.A. Times beluga roundup" target="_blank" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/01/alaska-sues-fed.html" linkindex="32" set="yes">Not everyone agrees</A>. The <EM><A title="beluga article" target="_blank" href="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/marine/story/654545.html" linkindex="33" set="yes">Anchorage Daily News</A></EM> quotes Craig Matkin, an Alaska marine mammal specialist with the North Gulf Oceanic Society:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/2009/01/suing-the-belugas.html"><P>"It seems the Palin administration only likes one kind of science -- the kind it agrees with. Every objective expert who's looked at this small and isolated (beluga) population agrees it should be listed." </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D6E37777-809C-4618-A6DE-D11A1212C1E0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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