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WHO IS GOV. SARAH PALIN?
We've only just begun to find out. It isn't good.
Here's a start.
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Source/Letters: "Grist" <grist @ grist.org> (close spaces)
TOP STORY
Palin Around
The eco-rundown on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's VP pick
In a surprise move this morning, John McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
as his running mate. Palin, a conservative Republican, was the ethics
commissioner of the Alaska Gas and Oil Conservation Commission from 2003 to
2004 and has a reputation for integrity and fighting corruption. She has
pushed to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling and to build
a natural-gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope, and earlier this year she
sued the Interior Department over its decision to list the polar bear as a
threatened species.*
<http://www.grist.org/news/2008/05/22/alaska/?source=daily>
Palin recently proposed eliminating Alaska's gas tax and got the state
legislature to pass a bill to provide each Alaskan $1,200 to help with
energy bills. She also recently opposed a statewide ballot initiative to
prohibit or restrict new mining operations that could affect salmon in the
state's streams and rivers, even though she's an avid angler and hunter
herself. She has created a committee to forge Alaska's climate-change
strategy, and has made Alaska an observer (but not a member) of the Western
Climate Initiative*
<http://lists.grist.org/t?r=2&c=3574&l=16&ctl=2FECB:665ED9E2FFB0BA9F72C55D73
F4FEAD2B> .
But that doesn't mean she has any sort of beef with Big Oil (in fact, her
husband is an oil production operator for BP on Alaska's North Slope). She
said earlier this week, "When I look every day, the big oil company's
building is right out there next to me, and it's quite a reminder that we
should have mutually beneficial relationships with the oil industry."
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See:
*"Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- California, four other western states and British
Columbia agreed to cut greenhouse gas output to 15 percent below 2005
emission levels by 2020 to curb a forecast rise in global temperatures....
agreement is the latest by state governments to respond to global warming
absent federal requirements under President Bush's administration."
Not Alaska! Palin didn't even sign on to this extemely "modest" 15%
Greenhouse Gas Cut
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=abQNO89.F98c&refer=cana
da >
<http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2244930020070822?pageNu
mber=3&sp=true >
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<http://www.grist.org/news/2008/05/22/alaska/?source=daily>
Beyond the Palin
*Alaska will sue over polar-bear listing
Posted at 12:07 PM on 22 May 2008
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will sue the Interior Department over its
decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species
<http://www.grist.org/news/2008/05/14/polar_threat/>. "We believe that the
listing was unwarranted and that it's unprecedented to list a currently
healthy population based on uncertain climate models," says Alaska Assistant
Attorney General Steven Daugherty. To green groups, that argument is, shall
we say, unimpressive. "Even the Bush administration can't deny the reality
of global warming," says Kassie Siegel
<http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2007/01/15/siegel/> of the
Center for Biological Diversity. "The governor is aligning herself and the
state of Alaska with the most discredited, fringe, extreme viewpoints by
denying this." Palin's litigation comes mainly out of fear for Alaska's
fossil-fuel-reliant economy, even though the wording of the Interior
Department decision went to great lengths to ward off any new restrictions
on oil and gas drilling.
sources:
Associated Press (Article no longer available)
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j9NGJ0_eVkxqgpEFC6RMHVlvT9qwD90QBMFG0>
Reuters
<http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2145097820080522>
Alaska to sue to block polar bear listing
Thu May 22, 2008 10:14am EDT
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The state of Alaska will sue the U.S.
government to stop the listing of the polar bear as a threatened species,
arguing the designation will slow development in the state, Gov. Sarah Palin
said on Wednesday.
Palin said the state will file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in
Washington challenging U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne's decision to
grant Endangered Species Act protections to the polar bear.
The Republican governor has argued that the ice-dependent polar bear, the
first mammal granted Endangered Species Act listing because of global
warming, does not need additional protections.
"We believe that the listing was unwarranted and that it's unprecedented to
list a currently healthy population based on uncertain climate models," said
Alaska Assistant Attorney General Steven Daugherty.
Even though Kempthorne enacted a rule aimed at precluding any new
restrictions on oil and gas operations as a result of the listing, the Palin
administration believes a wide variety of other development activities in
Alaska would be hampered if the listing goes through, Daugherty said.
Any development or activity requiring federal permits or using federal funds
would have to engage in a "consultation" process to ensure that polar bears
are not harmed, he said.
That consultation, mandated by the Endangered Species Act, "is a long and
time-consuming process," he said. "It's just, basically, a big
time-and-money-waster."
The date for filing the lawsuit is unknown, Daugherty said. The state
Department of Law on Wednesday was drafting its 60-day notice of intent to
sue, he said.
(Editing by Vicki Allen)
© Thomson Reuters 2008 All rights reserved
Related Blog Posts
<http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2145097820080522 >
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Bush Seeks to Limit Reviews for Endangered Species Act
American Patriot Journal
Bush Knows New Endangered Species Rule Illegal
Docudharma - Front Page
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: Eleventh-hour rulemaking threatens parts of the
Endangered Species Act with extinction
The Conservation Report
Views in these blog posts are those of the author and not of Reuters.
see also, in Grist: Green groups sue over polar bear listing
<http://www.grist.org/news/2008/05/20/polar_sue/>
©2007. Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Gloom and doom with a sense
of humor®.
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