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November 24, 2010

The polar bear economic farce

Author:  Damien M. Schiff

Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final critical habitat designation for the polar bear.  The designation covers
over 180,000 square miles.  Yet the Service estimates that the economic
impact of the designation, over a 29-year period, will amount to less than
$700,000 total, or just $54,000 a year.  It seems pretty obvious then that
development and other economically productive activities are having no effect on
the polar bear, at least as far as the Service views things.  Maybe more
likely, the Service has simply ignored most of the designation's economic
impacts---nothing new for the Service.  In fact, this designation simply
underscores the importance of the Supreme Court to grant review in Home Builders Association of Northern California v. U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service, in which PLF challenges the truncated economic
analysis the Service uses for most of its designations.

Posted on November 24, 2010
at 11:34 AM in Environmental
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