2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:01:47 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Pacific sonar settlement
 
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
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