Over the next 5 years the United States Navy plans to increase the number of its military exercises in the Pacific Northwest as well as expand the areas in which they already occur; virtually every US coastal state is affected. Some of these exercises may occur in the nation's most biologically sensitive marine habitats, including National Marine Sanctuaries and breeding habitat for the endangered North Atlantic right whale. In the Pacific the Navy anticipates more than 2.3 million "takes" per year or 11.7 million over 5 years. A "take" is a "significant disruption in marine mammal foraging, breeding, and other essential behaviors."
Rosaline Peterson, California President and Co-Founder of the Agriculture Defense Coalition (ADC) talks about the impact of these tests.
Two file formats" 128 kbps mono 24 kbps mono Learn more: www.raisingsandradio.org Read the article in Counterpunch: "Dumping the Navy Way" by Susan Galleymore: http://counterpunch.org/galleymore09302010.html
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