Environment Companies get OK to annoy polar bears

[The Helper]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.

The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if "small numbers" of polar bears or Pacific walruses are incidentally harmed by their activities over the next five years.

Environmentalists said the new regulations give oil companies a blank check to harass the polar bear.

Oil hunters can annoy polar bears, agency says

The Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.

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[BANANAMAN]

Oooh the epic irony

 

[enouwee]

Next news headline: "Three oil workers killed by annoyed polar bear"

 

[Xapphire]

Haha! Polar Bears, I love them, they come next, after pandas. God whats next? Government gives and "ok" to annoy wild life, and harm in certain circumstances?
Then after that, Government officials claim that "Nature protection agencies are not doing their job.."