{"id":1388,"date":"2014-11-10T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2014-11-10T18:23:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:23:05","slug":"lawsuit-filed-to-protect-struggling-walruses-from-arctic-oil-drilling-ecowatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Filed to Protect Struggling Walruses from Arctic Oil Drilling \u00bb EcoWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/11\/10\/walruses-arctic-drilling\/\">Lawsuit Filed to Protect Struggling Walruses from Arctic Oil Drilling \u00bb EcoWatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/10\/01\/walruses-sea-ice-melt-climate-change\/\">Threats to walruses<\/a>\u00a0in the Arctic are in the spotlight again, as six environmental and conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) challenging a rule that would allow oil companies to begin\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/offshore-oil-drilling-energy\/\">drilling<\/a>\u00a0in key walrus feeding areas in the Arctic\u2019s Chukchi Sea by next year.\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?s=shell\">Shell<\/a>\u00a0has already announced its intention to do so.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_347958\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; background-color: #eeeeee; max-width: 610px; padding: 3px; margin: 0px;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/walrus-corey.jpg\"><span class=\"image-container wp-image-347958 size-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; max-width: 600px; max-height: 450px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-347958 size-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/walrus-corey.jpg\" alt=\"walrus_corey\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_347958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 0.875rem; padding: 0.1875rem 0.4375rem 0.1875rem 0.4375rem; margin: 0px;\">Approximately 35,000 walruses gather on the northwest coast of Alaska, near Point Lay, on Sept. 27. Photo credit: Corey Accardo \/ NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/earthjustice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earthjustice<\/a>\u00a0filed the lawsuit on behalf of\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskawild.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska Wilderness League<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Biological Diversity<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greenpeace<\/a>, Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands,\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra Club<\/a>and\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defense Council<\/a>. According to the plaintiffs, oil operations could force walruses out of their feeding areas, trigger stampedes, harm them with loud seismic blasts and put them at risk from the impacts of catastrophic oil spills which would be difficult to clean up in Arctic conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit Filed to Protect Struggling Walruses from Arctic Oil Drilling \u00bb EcoWatch. Threats to walruses\u00a0in the Arctic are in the spotlight again, as six environmental and conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) challenging a rule that would allow oil companies to begin\u00a0drilling\u00a0in key walrus feeding areas in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1018,1019,1020],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-arctic","tag-oil-drilling","tag-walruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}