{"id":6866,"date":"2012-07-19T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T18:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=6866"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:44:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:44:23","slug":"pierce-brosnan-beluga-whales-under-apache-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/pierce-brosnan-beluga-whales-under-apache-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce Brosnan Speaks Up for Beluga Whales Under Attack by Big Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6868\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beluga-whale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beluga-whale.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"beluga-whale\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6868\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NRDC<\/figcaption><\/figure>Actor Pierce Brosnan, famous starring in several instalments of the James Bond franchise, has lent his support to a campaign to save beluga whales in Alaska.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThere are only 284 beluga whales in Cook Inlet, Alaska but that hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stopped the Apache Alaska Corporation from preparing to launch a deadly assault on the whales in their own homes. Apache Alaska plans to use deafening airgun explosions which can cause injury, hearing loss and death, as the video below shows.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit the National Resources Defense Council and <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.nrdconline.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&#038;page=UserAction&#038;id=2823&#038;autologin=true&#038;JServSessionIdr004=hz6eyrlbo1.app341a\" target=\"_blank\">sign a petition<\/a> asking the Obama administration to withdraw its approval for this violent method that could spell the end of this endangered species. <\/p>\n<p>This is another reason to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\" target=\"_blank\">alternative energy<\/a>. Besides emissions, fossil fuel exploration is often harmful to animals, directly, as in this case, or indirectly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch the video:<\/em><br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D6M97HhmVcI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @energyrefuge<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Pierce Brosnan, famous starring in several instalments of the James Bond franchise, has lent his support to a campaign to save beluga whales in Alaska. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,607],"tags":[1545,1542,1543,1544],"class_list":["post-6866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil","category-wildlife","tag-apache-alaska","tag-beluga-whales","tag-nrdc","tag-pierce-brosnan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9002,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions\/9002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}