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Aozotorp

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 2:34 am

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Endangered Species Act to be reviewed
Saturday, November 15, 2003

From The Associated Press

SANTA BARBARA -- The senior Interior Department official responsible for the
Endangered Species Act labeled the law "broken" in calling for a review to look
at reforms, including sometimes favoring humans over the endangered species.

Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson specifically criticized a part of the
law limiting development in areas used by threatened species to recover -- the
so-called "critical habitat" provision.

"We didn't anticipate the potential conflicts" when the Endangered Species Act
was written, he said Thursday. "We have to recognize that, A, we can't protect
everything, and, B, we have to carefully examine whether we should try to
protect everything, and at what cost?"

Manson also questioned expenses resulting from the 30-year-old law.

"If we decide we are going to spend $100 million to save a species we've
imperiled, why are we doing that?" he asked in an interview with the Los
Angeles Times. "Are we doing that for the exercise of saving something that
nature can't take care of regardless of our efforts? If we are saying that the
loss of species in and of itself is inherently bad -- I don't think we know
enough about how the world works to say that."

Congressional investigators in September issued a report pressing Fish and
Wildlife to develop guidelines for when to require critical habitats, mainly to
reduce the agency's exposure to lawsuits from environmental groups. The General
Accounting Office said the critical habitat program "faces a serious crisis"
because of lawsuits.

Ian St. John

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 2:41 am

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"Aozotorp" <aozotorp@aol.com> wrote in message
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Good God! It's bad enough when they use this sort of shit for trolling but
to have the power to use such dim rhetoric as a justification for
elimination of environmental laws is just insane..

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