Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Wind Farms and Birds

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Obviously, the larger the wind-turbine fields-the greater impact to resident and migrating wildlife. Large wind-turbine fields imply highly-centralized power grids…and isn’t centralized power the crux of the energy problem? Keep the operations small & locally-controlled, and maybe even the pheasants can be happy, too.

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Study eases fear about wind farm threat to birds:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4900A120081001

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Federal Scientists: Flood Insurance Program Is Pushing Salmon and Orcas to Extinction

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 29, 2008 4:40 PM

CONTACT: Earthjustice
Jan Hasselman, Earthjustice: 206 343-7340 ext. 25
John Kostyack, National Wildlife Federation: 202 797 6879
Federal Scientists: Flood Insurance Program Is Pushing Salmon and Orcas to Extinction
New Standards for Development in Puget Sound Floodplains Likely

SEATTLE, Wa. – September 29 – Scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) today issued a long-awaited regulatory finding that the National Flood Insurance Program is pushing orcas and several runs of salmon towards extinction, in violation of the Endangered Species Act. The National Flood Insurance Program is implemented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The document, known as a biological opinion, is all but certain to trigger significant improvements in the development codes applicable in cities and counties across Puget Sound to help reduce risks to people and wildlife. Without implementing the changes called for by NMFS, these cities and counties could lose eligibility for federal flood insurance.
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Politics Overrules Biologists’ Views in Wolverine Decision

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This is particularly critical to climate and ecosystem relations. I got to know the wolverine fairly well-so to speak-during the Idaho forest-defense efforts in the 1990s. As with grizzly bears and tigers, wolverines are a wide-ranging, low-density species that require large tracts of pristine undeveloped wilderness for individuals to roam around in. As the article states-wolverines face threats from lessening snow-packs wrought by anthropogenic global heating-as well as from fragmentation of habitat by “development” of ANY kind. So listing the wolverine as endangered would not only help the species directly-but would ensure the protection of vast tracks of pristine undeveloped wilderness-which is critical to mitigating climate change and stabilizing the climate regime. The Bushies hate the ESA…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 30, 2008 3:01 PM

CONTACT: Earthjustice
David Gaillard, Defenders of Wildlife, (406) 586-3970
Tim Preso, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699
Joe Scott, Conservation Northwest, (360) 671-9950, ext.11
Noah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity, (503) 484-7495
Politics Overrules Biologists’ Views in Wolverine Decision
Conservation groups act to save imperiled species

MISSOULA, Mont. – September 30 – A recent federal decision refusing to protect wolverines in the western United States is a case of political considerations winning out over scientific findings by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service experts, according to a coalition of 10 conservation groups that filed suit today in U.S. district court. The groups are challenging the agency’s decision to deny wolverines protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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First Grizzly-Polar Bear Hybrid Shot in Wild

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Hybrid bear shot dead in Canada – first grizzly-polar hybrid found in the wild:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4766217.stm

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