The purpose: oil and gas extraction for export.

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    4 hours ago

    I wanted to highlight a couple paragraphs:

    Usually, a complaint from a state or business triggers lengthy reviews before a God Squad hearing. But in this case, the fate of imperiled whales, sea turtles and other at-risk species was in the hands of Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, who invoked “national security” for the exemption, the first such rationale given since the 1973 passage of the Endangered Species Act.

    “When development in the gulf is chilled, we are prevented from producing the energy we need as a country,” Hegseth said at the meeting. “Recent hostile action by the Iranian terror regime highlights yet again why robust domestic oil production is a national security imperative.”

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    Yeah! Fuck the whales! USA! USA! USA!

    Ain’t no whale gonna take my oil job, them aint even citizens! Coming over here taken our oil jobs and our women.