To Hell With The Polar Bears
Buck February 6th, 2008 - 11:47 pmF*ck the polar bears, the walruses, the bowhead whales, the entire damned environment altogether… we’ve got big money to make!
The Interior Department yesterday announced $2.6 billion in winning bids from companies seeking to drill for oil and gas in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea despite protests from environmental groups and members of Congress that oil and gas exploration would endanger polar bears.
Companies made 667 bids for 448 tracts in the 29 million-acre area north of Point Barrow. The winning bids included a record-breaking $105.3 million offer by Shell Oil for one three-by-three-mile leasehold, almost twice as much as the previous high bid for a single offshore U.S. tract.
“This is a tremendous opportunity, and with that comes a tremendous responsibility to Alaska and the offshore area,” said Annell Bay, vice president of exploration for Shell in the Americas.
Environmental groups said, however, that they doubted the area, home to about one-tenth of the world’s polar bears, could be explored without high risks of a spill and damage to the habitat of the bears and other wildlife, such as walruses and bowhead whales.
February 7th, 2008 at 12:14 am
IGNORGANCE IS BLISS.
GOOD FOR YOU FOR REGURGITATING THE SIERRA CLUB’S TALKING POINTS. WELL DONE! YOU’RE A GOOD AMERICAN AND A TRUE PATRIOT.
PS. PLEASE DROP A PENNY IN THE GOOD WILL BOX NEXT TIME YOU FILL UP AT THE GAS STATION.
February 7th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Man, how can I respond to that trenchant comment?
IGNORGANCE IS BLISS.
Really says it all.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:28 am
“PLEASE DROP A PENNY IN THE GOOD WILL BOX NEXT TIME YOU FILL UP AT THE GAS STATION.”
American Patriot, (patriot???), I always do. Why? Because, unlike you, I give a flying fuck!
February 7th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I attended a meeting of our local Sierra Club group yesterday evening. Good people, put positive spin on life. Considering those oil leases please remember Forrests mom “Stupid is as Stupid Does!” Actual Patriots care about what happens to their countries environment. One of my favorite shirts is a Sierra Club shirt with a painting of the earth on the front and bact with the caption on the front saying “We are not just passengers on spaceship earth” and on the back it says “we are the crew”
February 7th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Hey Bat, this ignorant person who is considering his bliss needs to realize that being ignorant of ones own ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
February 7th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
The other Buck | 02.07.08 - 12:09 pm
I think you just made his head explode with that one!
February 7th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Apparently he’s blissfully ignorant of the pollution that comes out of his own pie hole. A lack of oxygen to his brain could be a contributing factor.