[CPEO-MEF] Pacific sonar settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Legal settlement restricts Navy's use of sonar systems
RESTRICTIONS MEANT TO PROTECT WHALES

By Marcus Wohlsen/Associated Press
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
August 13, 2008

The U.S. Navy agreed in a settlement approved Tuesday to limit where it 
operates certain sonar systems criticized by environmentalists as a 
threat to whales and other marine mammals.

The settlement approved Tuesday by a federal judge in San Francisco 
restricts the Navy's use of low-frequency sonar to specific military 
training areas near Hawaii and in the western Pacific Ocean.

"Today's agreement maintains the Navy's ability to test and train while 
shielding whales and other vulnerable species from harmful underwater 
noise," said Michael Jasny, a policy analyst with the Natural Resources 
Defense Council, the lead plaintiff in the case.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_10186155

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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