[CINC] Exxon Denies Endangering Whales

[john kuizenga]

As most of you know a small population of Gray Whales lead a tenuous
existence in the Western Pacific, sometimes referred to as the
Okhotsk-Korean Gray¹s and are in critical danger of extinction.  Depending
on whose figures you use, the population hovers somewhere between fifty to
over a  hundred individuals.  These Gray¹s feed primarily in the Sea of
Okhotsk, west of the Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) and migrate southwest past
Sakhalin Island, into the Sea of Japan to their breeding/calving grounds in
Korean Waters. The World Wildlife Fund Russia says, they believe the
Sakhalin-1 (also a Sakhalin-2) oil and gas project is ³likely to deprive
food for the Gray Whales² endangering this population. This population is
also listed on the ³World Conservation Union¹s Red List, as critically
endangered².  Yesterday¹s (5/17) edition of the SB New Press in the National
and World News Section (B-6), under Briefs printed an article:  ³Exxon
Denies Endangering Whales².   However, the News Press doesn¹t provide news
service reports in their on-line publication, so I¹ve included a link to the
URL of another article referring the same situation, for those who may be
interested: http://www.yuzno.com/news/1394  Because the link cited is
lacking specifics, you may also want to open two additional links:
http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=2700&&printsafe=1 &
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=97444 -  John
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