2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:33:21 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] BIOTA: Supreme Court sonar hearing
 
Supreme Court takes on whales, Navy sonar

Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Hearst Newspapers
San Francisco Chronicle
October 9, 2008

Several Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical Wednesday about a federal judge's decision to protect whales and other marine life off the California coast by limiting the Navy's use of sonar.

The case pits environmental causes against national security and military interests.

Environmentalists warn that the mid-frequency sonar used by the Navy can harm or kill whales by forcing the mammals to dive deep to avoid the sound, causing decompression sickness. The electronic devices also interfere with the mammals' ability to navigate underwater and prompt them to change their breeding habits.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/09/MNLI13DOHT.DTL&hw=Breyer+sonar&sn=001&sc=1000

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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