A SMALL VCTORY WINNING THE WAR OND DAY AT A TIME!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/03/coastal-panel-rejects-navy-plan-to-increase-underwater-explosions.html


Yeah!!!

Good deal. As sensitive as cetateans are to sound waves, it must have been torture for them.

Agree w/EE and that this is a good thing. A couple key quotes from the article:

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Michael Jasny, senior policy analyst and director of the marine mammal project at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the Navy’s plans would disrupt the foraging and breeding of whales and kill many of the mammals. Jasny also criticized the Navy for refusing, in the past, to follow mitigation suggestions from the Coastal Commission.

Quote :

Navy Cmdr. John Doney, director of exercises for the San Diego-based 3rd Fleet, said .../snip/...

America’s adversaries, he said, are building super-quiet submarines that threaten the U.S. Navy.

“I would submit the threat is real and the threat is out there,” he said.

After the vote, Commission Chairwoman Mary Shallenberger encouraged the Navy to begin negotiations with commission staffers about mitigation measures and then return at a future meeting.

No training will be curtailed, at least in the near future, because of the vote, Navy officials said. The approval process for the Navy’s training and testing programs involves state and federal agencies.

Will be interesting to see how "negotiations" and the "approval process" shakes out.