[CPEO-MEF] Judge enjoins Pacific sonar use

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Judge bars shrill Navy sonar

Temporary order issued in suit seeking to protect whales, porpoises


By ROBERT MCCLURE
Seattle Press-Intelligencer
July 4, 2006

The Navy is forbidden to use an intense form of sonar -- known to have 
spooked Puget Sound orcas in the past -- during combat exercises this 
month in the Pacific, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Environmentalists suing to halt the sonar use offered "considerable 
convincing scientific evidence" that the exercise would harm or even 
kill whales, porpoises and other marine creatures, U.S. District Judge 
Florence-Marie Cooper ruled in Los Angeles in granting a temporary 
restraining order.

Among the areas the Navy had previously obtained permission to use the 
midfrequency sonar were the biologically rich waters of the northwest 
Hawaiian Islands. Last month, President Bush proposed creating the 
largest marine sanctuary on the planet there.

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For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/276375_whales04.html

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Lenny Siegel
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