Seriously people! We need to take action when we can on issues. Signing petitions and sending emails. If you have found an issue to add to this thread please do so. I just found this for starters.
That obnoxious conversation behind you clocks in at 60 decibels. The old Harley that just roared down 13th Street? 90 decibels. At 130 decibels sound is physically painful to the human ear.
A single blast from a seismic airgun, used for oil exploration, racks up 190 decibels. Underwater, each blast is amplified to 250 decibels — 100,000 times more intense than a jet engine.
The Department of the Interior (DOI) is currently pending approval of industrial seismic airgun surveying to search for offshore oil and gas reserves spanning from Florida to Delaware.
A fleet of airguns, dragged along by boat, shoot intense blasts of compressed air underwater and miles through the sea floor every seven to sixteen seconds, twenty-four hours per day for days to months on end.
These blasts pound through the water and miles deeper into the ocean floor to send back signals with information used to create three-dimensional images of geologic faults. From these images, oil and gas companies can identify potential drilling locations.
Please read the entire article at the link below then send out emails asap. We have a very limited time on this!
http://campusprogress.org/articles/testing_the_waters
In its own draft Environmental Impact Statement report, the DOI recognizes that seismic airgun testing would cause 13.5 million disruptions to vital behaviors of marine mammals, which include feeding, breeding and calving.
It also estimates injury to 138,500 dolphins and whales over the next eight years. This count includes eight endangered species including the North Atlantic right whale. With only 361 individuals remaining in the entire ocean, the North Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered marine mammals in the world.
How to speak whale, or at least for them
One alternative, mandatory to all environmental impact statements, is the “No Action Alternative,” which is exactly what it sounds like. It takes a precautionary approach and would prohibit all geological and geophysical activities related to oil and gas exploration in this particular zone of the Atlantic Ocean but still permit, on a case-by-case basis, research and development for offshore renewable energy.
The DOI will make its final decision in the beginning of 2013, which is coming up fast. If the proposal clears, oil and gas companies could start up testing as early as next year. Until then, the only voice the whales have is ours.
The main petition against seismic airgun testing is a photo petition on Facebook. However, you can also take more direct action by writing to Secretary Ken Salazar of the DOI. Calling or even sending a quick note to your state senators and representatives can help greatly. For Florida residents, contact Senator Bill Nelson, Marco Rubio, and your district representative here.
PLEASE TAKE ACTION WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME!
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Orcas are known for their intelligence, agility, and playfulness. Nowhere is
this more obvious than the Pacific Northwest, where the resident orca pods
attract tourists and scientists from around the world.
Yet, this critically endangered population of killer whales has been reduced to
only 84 individuals. These unique marine mammals have been decimated by the
decline of salmon -- their primary prey -- and by toxic pollution and habitat
degradation from shipping, sonar and other human activities.
Now they face a new threat from anti-environmental groups seeking to strip away
their Endangered Species Act protections. Tell the National Marine Fisheries
Service that this unique population deserves full protection under the law:
This extended family group of killer whales, known as the southern residents,
spends much of the year hunting salmon in the waters between Washington and
Canada. In the winter and spring months when salmon are scarce, they can range
as far south as California in search of food.
The Pacific Legal Foundation and the California irrigators they represent have
asked the federal National Marine Fisheries Service to lift protections for the
orcas on the flawed premise that all killer whales are the same. But the truth
is that southern resident killer whales have evolved distinct language, culture,
and physical and genetic characteristics that set them apart from other types of
killer whales that feed on marine mammals or roam the open ocean.
These irrigators hope to grab more water resources, further devastating
California salmon and the species that depend on them. The National Marine
Fisheries Service is now considering this cynical request to delist the southern
resident orcas. Please voice your support for continuing vital protections for
the Pacific Northwest's irreplaceable killer whales:
Earthjustice litigation resulted in the southern residents getting Endangered
Species Act protections in 2005. Please help ensure those protections remain in
place. Urge the Fisheries Service to reject this misguided effort to put a
handful of irrigators ahead of the west coast's natural heritage:
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Well, currently we're in the midst of the 6th mass extinction. 200 species a day. Perhaps we can save one.
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FRANKENFISH..............IS IT SAFE TO EAT??? NOT ON MY PLATE!!!
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Frankenfish could be on your dinner plate by the end of the year.
On December 21, at the very end of the last business day before Christmas week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its environmental assessment that found "no significant impact" from the controversial AquaBounty AquaAdvantage transgenic salmon. We're now in a 60 day comment period that ends on February 25, at which time the FDA is widely expected to initiate formal approval.
What is the rationale behind genetically engineered salmon? Why have scientists spliced genes from an eel-like creature called the ocean pout into the genome of the Atlantic salmon? These genes crank out growth hormone year-round, resulting in a fish that grows faster, cutting the time to reach market weight almost in half. This could mean cost savings for fish farmers, leading to higher profits for the salmon farming industry and (they promise) lower prices for consumers.
But there are massively disturbing ethical, environmental, and health concerns that make the introduction of Frankenfish highly controversial.
Corporations Given the Power to Create Life
Humans have been using natural selection for years to favor certain genetic expressions in animals and plants. But natural selection on the farm is entirely different than taking genes from two or more completely different creatures, and splicing them together in a laboratory.
Some people are concerned that the power to create new life now sits in the hands of corporate interests. Others are disturbed by the notion of eating genetically engineered animals when there isn't even so much as a label to give them choice in the matter.
With countless more genetically engineered animal creations waiting for approval, the release of genetically engineered salmon could lead to a plethora of new life forms coming onto the market. John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution and many other best-sellers about food, health and the environment, calls this "Pandora's Pantry."
Impact on Oceans and Wild Salmon
AquaBounty, the company behind the first Frankenfish, insists that their creation poses no threat to wild salmon populations. But research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that a release of just sixty GE salmon into a wild population of 60,000 would lead to the extinction of the wild population in less than 40 fish generations.
AquaBounty insists that their fish will be raised in controlled pens and will never be released into the ocean, and that besides, their fish will be sterile. But every year, millions of farmed fish escape from fish farms into the wild. It's true that initial introduction of AquaBounty's fish is slated for Panama in highly controlled pens. But AquaBounty is planning to market the eggs, not the fish. Once the production of GE fish becomes commercialized, it will be impossible to control the whereabouts of every single individual and assure compliance with appropriate containment measures. Some degree of release may be inevitable.
As to sterile fish, at present, there is no guaranteed method to produce 100% sterility. In fact, the FDA's most recent study found that five percent of the animals were in fact fertile. If large numbers of fish escape, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to deduce that some fertile fish might not only survive in the wild, but thrive. Because AquaAdvantage fish grow many times faster, and become mature much more quickly, than wild salmon, they may have the ability to outcompete wild salmon for food, and to reproduce at a much faster rate.
By stipulating that AquaBounty's fish will never by produced in the United States, the company was able to avoid having to conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that would analyze what would happen if things don't go as planned. So long as the fish are only produced in countries with relatively lax environmental laws, they may be able to get away without further study.
But if the fish escape into the wild, they won't stop swimming at national borders. This means that if they survive in the wild anywhere, they may soon be driving wild salmon into oblivion everywhere. The impact on marine and freshwater ecosystems, and on the economic wellbeing of fish-dependent coastal communities, could be devastating.
The FDA chose to review AquAdvantage as an animal drug, rather than a human food. In the FDA's view, the refashioned DNA that is in every cell of the fish's body is considered a drug, and that's what the agency is regulating. If approved, the AquAdvantage salmon would not only be the first GE animal approved for human consumption, but also the first animal drug that's theoretically capable of swimming off into the ocean and reproducing.
Is It Safe to Eat?
The FDA concluded the salmon to be "as safe as food from conventional (farmed) Atlantic salmon." While this might be debatable, considering that the genetic makeup of the fish is a new creation, and there have been no long-term studies conducted on humans actually consuming genetically engineered salmon, let's suppose for the moment that the FDA's conclusion is accurate.
Is being as safe as conventional farmed salmon such a great thing? Salmon has been widely touted for its prevalence of Omega 3 essential fatty acids. And it's true that wild salmon has low levels of many of the contaminants found in other fish. But farmed Atlantic salmon is an entirely different matter.
Jane Houlihan of the Environmental Working Group comments: "Nearly all (farmed) salmon (that) Americans eat are grown in dense-packed pens near ocean shores, fed fish meal that can be polluted with toxic PCB chemicals, awash in excrement flushed out to sea and infused with antibiotics to combat unsanitary conditions."
Many medical experts are already recommending reducing farmed salmon consumption to one serving per month or less. Compared to wild salmon, studies have found farmed salmon to have significantly higher concentrations of contaminants, including such lovely substances as PCBs, dioxins, dieldrin, and toxaphene.
If AquaAdvantage does come to market on a large scale, and if it does reduce the cost of farmed salmon, thus making it more widely available and more affordable, is this really a boon to a hungry world? Or might it be a recipe for even more cancer and environmental pollution?
What You Can Do
Tell the FDA what you think: If you are disturbed by the prospect of a solid green light being given to sale of genetically engineered salmon in the United States, now is a great time to speak up. The FDA's comment period lasts until February 25. You can submit comments online, or sign petitions like this one.
Take action for labeling: Genetically engineered crops are already unlabeled, inadequately tested, and present in an estimated 75% of the foods in America's restaurants and supermarket shelves. Surveys have found that as much as ninety-three percent of the American public supports the labeling of genetically engineered foods. Perhaps the prospect of genetically altered animals pouring onto American dinner plates without labeling will tip us over the edge from concern into action. To support labeling, sign the Food Revolution Network and Care2's petition to Congress, or the Just Label It Campaign's petition to the FDA.
Protect yourself and your family: You can get a non-GMO shopping guide and mobile app that can help you and your family avoid genetically engineered foods if you want to do so. And the Food Revolution Network offers a complimentary no-GMO action pack.
Ocean Robbins is founder and co-host (with best-selling author John Robbins) of the 90,000 member Food Revolution Network, an initiative to help you heal your body, and your world... with food. Find out more and sign up for free at foodrevolution.org.
Sierra Club to Engage in Civil Disobedience for First Time in Organization’s History to Stop Tar SandsA+A-2
If you could do it nonstop, it would take you six days to walk from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond to President Barack Obama’s White House. For the Sierra Club, that journey has taken much longer. For 120 years, we have remained committed to using every “lawful means” to achieve our objectives. Now, for the first time in our history, we are prepared to go further.
Next month, the Sierra Club will officially participate in an act of peaceful civil resistance. We’ll be following in the hallowed footsteps of Thoreau, who first articulated the principles of civil disobedience 44 years before John Muir founded the Sierra Club.
Some of you might wonder what took us so long. Others might wonder whether John Muir is sitting up in his grave. In fact, John Muir had both a deep appreciation for Thoreau and a powerful sense of right and wrong. And it’s the issue of right versus wrong that has brought the Sierra Club to this unprecedented decision.
For civil disobedience to be justified, something must be so wrong that it compels the strongest defensible protest. Such a protest, if rendered thoughtfully and peacefully, is in fact a profound act of patriotism. For Thoreau, the wrongs were slavery and the invasion of Mexico. For Martin Luther King, Jr., it was the brutal, institutionalized racism of the Jim Crow South. For us, it is the possibility that the U.S. might surrender any hope of stabilizing our planet’s climate.
As President Obama eloquently said during his inaugural address, “You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.”
As citizens, for us to give up on stopping runaway global temperatures would be all the more tragic if it happened at the very moment when we are seeing both tremendous growth in clean energy and firsthand evidence of what extreme weather can do. Last year, record heat and drought across the nation wiped out half of our corn crop and 60 percent of our pasturelands. Wildfires in Colorado, Texas, and elsewhere burned nearly nine million acres. And superstorm Sandy brought devastation beyond anyone’s imagining to the Eastern Seaboard.
We are watching a global crisis unfold before our eyes, and to stand aside and let it happen—even though we know how to stop it—would be unconscionable. As the president said on Monday, “to do so would betray our children and future generations.” It couldn’t be simpler: Either we leave at least two-thirds of the known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, or we destroy our planet as we know it. That’s our choice, if you can call it that.
The Sierra Club has refused to stand by. We’ve worked hard and brought all of our traditional tactics of lobbying, electoral work, litigation, grassroots organizing and public education to bear on this crisis. And we have had great success—stopping more than 170 coal plants from being built, securing the retirement of another 129 existing plants and helping grow a clean energy economy. But time is running out, and there is so much more to do. The stakes are enormous. At this point, we can’t afford to lose a single major battle. That’s why the Sierra Club’s board of directors has for the first time endorsed an act of peaceful civil disobedience.
In doing so, we’re issuing a challenge to President Obama, who spoke stirringly in his inaugural address about how America must lead the world on the transition to clean energy. Welcome as those words were, we need the president to match them with strong action and use the first 100 days of his second term to begin building a bold and lasting legacy of clean energy and climate stability.
That means rejecting the dangerous tar sands pipeline that would transport some of the dirtiest oil on the planet, and other reckless fossil fuel projects from Northwest coal exports to Arctic drilling. It means following through on his pledge to double down again on clean energy, and cut carbon pollution from smokestacks across the country. And, perhaps most of all, it means standing up to the fossil fuel corporations that would drive us over the climate cliff without so much as a backward glance.
One of my favorite quotes is from Martin Luther King, Jr., although it has its roots in the writings of Theodore Parker (an acquaintance of Henry David Thoreau): “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
I believe that, given sufficient time, our government would certainly follow the moral arc that leads to decisive action on this crisis. We have a democracy, and the tide of public opinion has shifted decisively. What’s more, I doubt that even the most ardent climate denier actually wants to destroy our world.
We have a clear understanding of the crisis. We have solutions. What we don’t have is time. We cannot afford to wait, and neither can President Obama.
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The president provides written answers to 10 critical questions about the environment.
By Alisa OparPublished: 11/07/2012 Just thought you all might like to read this article. This is an Audubon article. http://mag.audubon.org/articles/climate/exclusive-interview-obama-defeats-romney-says-we-must-tackle-climate-change
Dear Friend,
I just sent a letter to the Department of Justice, urging them to hold BP fully accountable for the Gulf Coast Oil spill. I hope you'll read the alert below from the National Audubon Society and join me in taking action.
AUDUBON ACTION ALERT
BP is responsible for the worst oil spill in American history. We watched in horror as birds were covered in oil and struggled to survive. Birds, wildlife, and the environment in the Gulf region are still struggling. Today, we need your help to make sure BP pays their fair share to clean up the Gulf.
In a promising first step, earlier this month the federal government reached a historic settlement with BP for the criminal aspects of the spill-a record breaking $4.5 billion, over half of which will be dedicated to restoration efforts in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.
***Take Action***
Send a letter to the Department of Justice today. Thank them for the unprecedented criminal settlement-and remind them that the public still remembers the devastation of the spill and is expecting BP to be held fully accountable for its civil penalties under both the Clean Water and Oil Pollution Acts: http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAc...
The Department of Justice has the opportunity to send more than $20 billion to help restore the ecosystems, economies, and communities still reeling from this disaster.
BP is responsible for the worst oil spill in American history. The lesson ought to be: you break it, you buy it.
***Take Action***
Please send your letter to the Department of Justice right now:
https://secure3.convio.net/nasaud/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1347&JServSessionIdr004=6z33ugf9f1.app304a
Sincerely,
David Yarnold
President & CEO
National Audubon Society
I just signed a petition on the White House website regarding the Keystone XL.
Please visit this site and sign the petition!
http://wh.gov/mWLN
Here is a link to a very important White House petition that we MUST spread around! Please copy it and put it out on the internet or social websites after you sign it. It's to the President and it's regarding the Keystone XL.
Stop ALL construction of the Keystone tar sands pipeline once and forever !! | We the People: Your V
The text below is a comment (plea) that I just read. Here is someone in the thick of fracking land pleading for there to be a BAN on fracking. I hope you'll take a moment of your time to sign a petition against fracking after reading it.
Please Help Us! Those of us living in North Dakota’s rural areas deserve better than to be poisened and treated like lab rats to be experimented on by “fracking” and “flaring” all these poisons, into our once clean air. We have the most backward, ignorant, greed filled polititions of any state. Nobody will even listen to the people out here. The animals and the people are suffering out here. The tails are literaly falling off of the cattle out here because of Fracking. We deserve to have our health and our animals health protected. BAN FRACKING NOW!!! BAN FRACKING ALL ACROSS THE USA NOW BEFORE WE ARE POISONED ANYMORE HERE IN NORTH DAKOTA!!! WE HATE THE BAKKEN OUT HERE AND EVERYTHING THAT COMES WITH IT. BAN FRACKING NOW!
I must admit......after reading that the tails are literaly falling off the cattle out here because of Fracking , I decided I was happy that I have not been eating beef!
If you have not sent a letter to the President stating that you do not want the Keystone XL approved PLEASE DO IT RIGHT NOW!!! Read why.....
TransCanada appreciates the support it has received in recent months from individuals, government officials, associations and organizations. Together over 700,000 comments, hundreds of letters and thousands of voices in support of the project have been received by the US Department of State.
Public support of the Keystone XL project is important and we encourage you to get involved.
GET BUSY PLEASE!!!! WRITE AND IF YOU CAN ATTEND THE PROTEST THIS FEB. AT THE WHITE HOUSE!!
Please watch this video.
IMPORTANT VIDEO Tar Sand Oil Extraction The Dirty Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkwoRivP17A&feature=related
Then follow this link and sign the petition to President Obama to STOP building the southern portion of the Keystone XL
http://ecowatch.org/2013/stop-keystone-xl-petition/
Stop U.S. Navy plans to kill, permanently injure, or otherwise seriously harm, whales and dolphins, more than 31 million times over the next 5 years.
http://signon.org/sign/stop-us-navy-plans-to-1?mailing_id=8845&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=2511113
Petition Background
The US Navy is seeking permission to kill, permanently injure, or otherwise seriously harm whales and dolphins more than 31 million times over the next five years throughout Southern California, Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico, and along the Atlantic Coast, using sonar and other equipment. This staggering and unprecedented amount of harm is the Navy’s own estimate of impacts from its training and testing activities to more than 40 marine mammal species, which can include loss of hearing, maiming or bleeding to death. The Navy is seeking permission to increase the use of this devastating sound and to use it intensively throughout an area the size of the country of Mexico. This is our last opportunity to comment on this proposal. The Navy should not be allowed to inflict harm to marine wildlife!
The Navy will use underwater explosions, sinking of ships and active sonar so loud and intense it can seriously harm or kill marine mammals. This sonar alone has been implicated in mass stranding of marine mammals all over the world. Now they are asking to radically increase what they have done in the past, knowing that its activities will kill, maim, and harass millions of marine mammals including 9 species listed under the Endangered Species Act.
Maybe you have watched a whale, dolphin, otter, seal or other marine mammal, in the wild, or seen "Flipper" or other cetaceans on TV. Possibly you have dreamed of swimming with them one day. If this is so, you know in your heart we must do everything we can to protect them. We know how special they are and why we are in such awe of them. We cannot allow this travesty to occur in our oceans when we have the ability to stop or minimize this damage.
Fortunately, there is the possibility to minimize the damage by taking action right now. The Fisheries Service's job is to protect marine mammals and endangered species. With your signature we will let them know we are watching, we are expecting them to do their job and we are not going to tolerate this mass destruction in our oceans.
By law the Fisheries Service has to let the public comment on its preliminary decision. We have until March 11, 2013. It has never been more important than it is right now for all of us to act. Please sign!
Subject: Stop U.S. Navy plans to kill, permanently injure, or otherwise seriously harm, whales and dolphins, more than 31 million times over the next 5 years.
"We demand that you rescind your decision to authorize and enable the U.S. Navy to cause such obvious and unnecessary harm to our ocean’s wildlife by not granting the permit that the they seek."
Will you sign this petition? Click here:
http://signon.org/sign/stop-us-navy-plans-to-1?source=s.icn.em.cp&r_by=2511113
Thanks!
Fewer than 500 North Atlantic right whales remain, putting the species on the brink of extinction. The survival of the species is constantly threatened by ship strikes, entanglements in fishing gear and other man-made dangers. 72% of their known mortalities are the result of these anthropogenic threats. Unless the government takes action NOW, North Atlantic right whales will disappear forever.
I believe these magnificent marine mammals must be protected. That's why I signed this petition urging the government to act right now, and I'm hoping you will too. Here's the link:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/965/129/498/?z00m=20497180
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION BELOW TO PROTECT THIS PRISTINE RIVER FROM MINING! IT'S HOME TO TROUT AND SALMON!
Take Action: Urge @Interior to protect the Wild & Scenic Chetco River from destructive mining. http://bit.ly/WQLIOc @americanrivers
IF YOU'RE IN CALIFORNIA HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO GET INVOLVED WITH FRACKING REGULATIONS.
http://www.conservation.ca.gov/Index/Pages/Index.aspx
"Discussion draft” hydraulic fracturing regulations released; Bakersfield meeting scheduled
The Department of Conservation/Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources on December 18, 2012 released a “discussion draft” of regulations for the oil and natural gas production technique known as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). What does “discussion draft” mean? It means that this version does not kick off the formal rulemaking process. Instead, it is a starting point for discussion by key stakeholders – industry, the environmental community, and other regulators, as well as interested members of the public – in preparation for the more formal process. These “discussion draft” regulations include provisions for pre-fracturing well testing; advance notification; monitoring during and after fracturing operations; disclosure of materials used in fracturing fluid; trade secrets; and storage and handling of hydraulic fracturing fluids.
The Department conducted the first of several stakeholder workshops to receive input on the "discussion draft" regulations on February 19 in Los Angeles. The next workshop is scheduled Wednesday, March 13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Four Points Sheraton, 5101 California Avenue, Bakersfield, 93309. The agenda can be found here
Please take a moment to sign a petition to hopefully save whales, dolphins and other marine mammals from sonar testing.
http://www.whaleanddolphinwatch.com/#
Stolen lands
Hey,
I just took this action calling on Sukanto Tanoto, CEO of controversial paper giant APRIL, to return lands stolen from Indonesian villagers. Thought you'd like to sign too.
http://ran.org/act/april-stolen-land/?t=a&r=47550601
What the FREEK are you talkling about??? GEZZ go away already!
Here is a petition that has a video that I am WARNING YOU will be hard to watch. In fact I couldn't even watch it for a full minute! I feel protecting our wildlife and other critters from savage brutal deaths should be on our list and this petition needs to be signed. Please watch as much of the video as you can stomach then sign the petition.
I just signed the petition "Marc Jacobs: You were caught selling dog fur! Stop using ALL fur in your designs." on Change.org.
It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's the link:
http://www.change.org/petitions/marc-jacobs-you-were-caught-selling-dog-...
Please go to the Rainforest Action Network ran.org and sign the petition that is going to be send to large snack food companies asking them to quit using palm oil because it's destroying the rainforest and important habitat. Look at the ingredients on the label of your snack foods. Boycott anything with palm oil and write to those companies if you can find the time. We need our rainforests and so do the creatures that live there. THANK YOU!
Here is the message and link from my email. You will have to copy and paste the link.
Just signed this RAN petition putting the US snack industry on notice for its use of palm oil tied to Indonesian rainforest destruction and orangutan extinction, and thought you'd want to sign too.
http://ran.org/act/snacks palm oil/?&t=a&r=47550601
A road in the wilderness to transport seafood for China and Japan?
Wilderness Watch is disappointed to report that a deal struck between U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and outgoing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar jeopardizes the Izembek Wilderness in Alaska. As we reported in the last issue of the Guardian, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced in February in its Environmental Impact Statement that it recommended against a land exchange and 20-mile road through the Izembek Wilderness in Alaska. Sen. Murkowski led the effort for the exchange and road through the Izembek Wilderness, and threatened to block the nomination of Sally Jewell for Secretary of the Interior if the road proposal was rejected. The deal struck with Salazar requires the FWS to conduct additional reviews of the proposal, and in return for the favor, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has voted to advance Jewell’s nomination. Jewell, if confirmed, will most likely make the final decision. Further controversy surrounds the issue as it has been speculated that the real reason for the road is to move seafood for commercial export, not just for medical evacuations as is commonly stated.
• Read a Greewire article by clicking here.
http://www.wildernesswatch.org/newsroom/guardian/Bad_Deal_Izembek.html?utm_content=guardian%40wildernesswatch.org&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=clicking%20here&utm_campaign=March%202013%20Guardiancontent
Humans are already on the endangered species list with little hope. Most of the people are sheep following those who believe we can survive on eating money, skip the middleman. Once they're gone the planet will return to normal and the other species can thrive.
We can't give up the fight! What species will be left to thrive if we don't fight to save what is here endangered or already threatened?
Here is your chance to speak up and ask a question!
In recognition of National Park week and to celebrate Earth Day, Secretary Jewell will host her first online chat on Monday, April 22nd at 1:30 pm ET.
If you would like to ask the Secretary a question, please send them to newmedia@ios.doi.gov and we will try to get to as many of them as possible.
To watch the chat live, click here www.doi.gov/live
Thanks,
Tim Fullerton
Director of Digital Strategy
U.S. Department of the Interior
www.twitter.com/Interior