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Originally posted by sardion2000
Call me cynical, but this seems more of a Greenwashing attempt for improving Public Relations.
Originally posted by spacedoubt
This is why I say he is having a good month.
No Rove indictment.
Nailed Zarqawi
More attention towards the problem of Illegal aliens.
Environmental protection zone in Hawaii.
Originally posted by grimreaper797
...this is one of the best actions bush has ever done for the environment...
That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments...
Bush's decision, announced late Wednesday, caught environmentalists and commercial fishing interests by surprise.
Source.
David Allen, Pacific regional director for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said much of how the various agencies work together will be focused on fulfilling the vision of the sanctuary.
"We don't want the public to see us as four different agencies. We want the public to see us working very closely together," Allen said.
Young and Allen signed the document for their departments. Representatives for the National Marine Sanctuary Program and the National Marine Fisheries Service signed for their respective federal agencies.
Source.
One key reason to grant sanctuary status to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands would be to lend permanence to the area's protection measures.
The federal waters around the islands are currently designated a coral reef ecosystem reserve, but that status does not come with permanent funding.
Future presidents may also change or revoke the status after taking office.
...authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to designate and manage areas of the marine environment with special national significance due to their conservation, recreational, ecological, historical, scientific, cultural, archeological, educational, or esthetic qualities as national marine sanctuaries. Day-to-day management of national marine sanctuaries has been delegated by the Secretary of Commerce to the National Marine Sanctuary Program. The primary objective of the NMSA is to protect marine resources...
Source.
1. If the Secretary finds a federal action is likely to destroy, cause the loss of, or injure a sanctuary resource, the NMSP is required to recommend reasonable and prudent alternatives that will protect sanctuary resources if implemented by the agency in taking the action. [See section 304(d) of the NMSA.]
2. The NMSA also allows the Secretary to issue regulations for each sanctuary designated and the system as a whole that, among other things, specify the types of activities that can and cannot occur within the sanctuary. [See section 308 of the NMSA.]
3. The NMSA requires the preparation and periodic updating of management plans that guide day-to-day activities at each sanctuary in furtherance of the goals of that sanctuary. [See sections 304(a) and 304(e) of the NMSA.]
4. The NMSA also provides for the assessment of civil penalties up to $120,000 per day per violation and the assessment of damages against people that injure sanctuary resources. [See sections 306, 307, and 312 of the NMSA.]
Source.
The objective of this essay, however, is to review the president's power in park-making through use of the Antiquities Act. By law, of course, Congress creates national parks. However, when Congress was tight-fisted, belligerent, or, more likely, lethargic, park proponents pulled the rabbit of the Antiquities Act out of the hat. Quite simply, under this 1906 act the president could set aside, by executive decree, areas as national monuments. Throughout the twentieth century zealous park proponents, as well as the National Park Service itself, were quite willing to circumvent the powers of Congress by appealing directly to the chief executive. Later, when the time became more propitious, the monument would be "upgraded" to a national park.
National Monuments to National Parks: The Use of the Antiquities Act of 1906
(EDIT: Interesting error with this link. The URL is not accepted from ATS. Here is the Google chache version: Here.
...Within the boundaries of the monument, we will prohibit unauthorized passage of ships; we will prohibit unauthorized recreational or commercial activity; we will prohibit any resource extraction or dumping of waste, and over a five-year period, we will phase out commercial fishing, as well...
Remarks by President Bush on the Establishment of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument
I would love to hear Him pronounce Humuhumunukunukuapua'a. (its a triggerfish)
Originally posted by marg6043
Originally posted by sardion2000
Call me cynical, but this seems more of a Greenwashing attempt for improving Public Relations.
Bingo, kind of too littler too late after his anti enviromental record, how come Alaska is not part of it, or the Gulf of Mexico perhaps is because it depends what is at stakes in the generosity of our Administration and the interest groups that is trying to satisfy.
Originally posted by Legalizer
Those 7,000 species are as good as dead in 50 years as Bush's pro-global warming policy causes the tides to rise and make it vanish. He'll be too old or too cold to care won't he.
I can't believe the people on this site are spouting the "He got Zarqawi" crap.
Where were you idiots a few weeks back when it was leaked from the pentagon
that Zarqawi was a propaganda tool used against the American people by
its own government to foster the war on terror?
Where are all the bio-chem weapons he was supposed to be making?
Along with "he got Zarqawi" where is the clapping of hands
and dancing for "and he sure killed that 8 year old girl good and dead, yeehaa!"
"Duhhuh he removed the Taliban from Afghanistan duh huh"--We are STILL fighting
the Taliban in Afghanistan!