Palin's Alaska Priorities

Her communications specialist explains:

"Other issues facing the state what some people consider to be inaccurate how would I put that listings of certain Alaskan animals as endangered or what is that second term that they use? They’re at risk? No… That’s not the technical term.  Anyway, there’s two listings there specifically dealing with polar bears and there’s also the issue with beluga whales.  So there’s different things and the issue there is of course wanting to provide a substantive lifestyle for our first Alaskans here which are the indigenous people and also wanting to protect our environment wanting to be good stewards to that and to take care of the animals that make Alaska. What it is however if they are improperly categorized then that can run snags on other types of development that would benefit not only people of Alaska but the world such as depending on certain kinds of drilling that we do off-shore either or people are in a hurry to list groups of whales as endangered or at risk than that might impede the progress that we’d be making to free or to lighten the the load that America has us obtaining oil from overseas."