[Ziroc]

Originally posted by Timber Loftis: NRDC BioGems Defender, I am thrilled to report that we have just won a crucial victory in federal court that temporarily blocks the U.S. Navy from deploying its dangerous LFA sonar system across 75 percent of the world's oceans. As I told you in a recent message, this new technology would blast hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean habitat with noise so intense it can maim, deafen or even kill whales and dolphins at close range. A federal judge has now agreed with us that the Bush administration likely violated a number of environmental laws when it granted the Navy a permit to deploy this deadly system. I want to thank the tens of thousands of BioGems Defenders who took online action against the Navy's plan and the thousands who sent us their emergency financial support. You made this tremendous victory possible! But even as we celebrate a job well done, please understand that this ruling is only a preliminary injunction. It is a beginning, not an end. We must now redouble our efforts and prepare for what promises to be a long courtroom battle ahead. We will be fighting for a permanent injunction that gives whales and other marine mammals the kind of lasting protection they so richly deserve. Sincerely, John H. Adams President Natural Resources Defense Council ===== You can read more about this victory for whales at: http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/021031.asp

Good, I hope that win their case. HAARP should have stopped it when the trial tests showed the results.. Man has ruined land, now they are TRYING damn hard to ruin the oceans (of life)... *sigh*