Some more details on Palin’s environmental policies
[See below the fold for an update to this post.]
As Colin Powell noted in his appearance on Meet the Press yesterday, the vice president’s sole job is to be ready to be president, and clearly this is not the case with Sarah Palin. We’ve looked at Palin’s horrendous views on the environment previously, but an article in the Telegraph today raised some more points that we have not yet discussed:
As the article notes, Palin “doesn’t run the mining, energy development, oil, and other industries that cause the pollution. But as governor it is within her power to do something about it. Only she hasn’t. All too often she has either done very little, or made matters worse.”
According to Greenpeace, “Palin has the most anti-environment records of any governor in the US. She has supported oil and drilling in some of the most ecologically sensitive areas in Alaska…”
And more on her policy to allow aerial killing of wolves: “Last year, Palin put up a $150 bounty on wolf paws to encourage hunters to kill more of the creatures. She also spent $400,000 of public money to defeat a proposed ban on the aerial hunting of wolves for sport.”
Update: apparently the Telegraph completely misquoted Palin in their article. The Telegraph states:
Writing in an open-ed piece for the New York Times, [Palin] said that these “magnificent, cuddly white bears are doing just fine and don’t need our protection. If the ice melts, they’ll adapt to living on the land.”
However, in that op-ed, Palin actually wrote:
ABOUT the closest most Americans will ever get to a polar bear are those cute, cuddly animated images that smiled at us while dancing around, pitching soft drinks on TV and movie screens this holiday season.
This is unfortunate, because polar bears are magnificent animals, not cartoon characters. They are worthy of our utmost efforts to protect them and their Arctic habitat. But adding polar bears to the nation’s list of endangered species, as some are now proposing, should not be part of those efforts.
Unfortunately, I guess politicians aren’t the only ones who can be guilty of misrepresenting political statements.
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AlyAly on
Mon, 20th Oct 2008 1:30 pm
A “bounty on wolf paws”???? Seriously?
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