Sea Shepherd: "President Bush Declares War on the Whales and Dolphins.
Only weeks after new scientific studies revealed that U.S. Navy sonar testing is lethal to whales, the Bush administration won approval on November 7 to authorize the use of military sonar whenever and wherever Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfied wishes to deploy it.
The Bill moves to the Senate next week and it is expected to pass.
'Whales and dolphins are now to be sacrificed to George Bush's ridiculous strategies to combat terrorism.' Said Captain Paul Watson. 'The President says that the security of the United States from terrorism justifies these extreme measures but I can't think of one terrorist organization deploying nuclear submarines and that is the only thing that justifies low frequency sonar detection. This is simply another pork barrel windfall for the defense industry.'
Earlier this year Navy sonar testing near the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the Pacific Northwest stressed Orca populations and killed several harbor porpoises."