Junk science triumphs again

[Quantum Windbag]

Ken Salazar opts to shut Drake's Bay Oyster Farm despite the total lack of evidence that it is a danger to the environment.

Feds boot Drakes Bay Oyster Co. from Pt. Reyes - SFGate

The anti science left has won another battle and destroyed a thriving company.

Supporters of a Marin County oyster farmer claimed victory Tuesday after a panel of scientists concluded that National Park Service officials made errors, selectively presented information and misrepresented facts in a series of reports about his Drakes Bay shellfish operation.
The findings mark the second time in a year that the Park Service has been put under a spotlight for essentially fudging data in its attempts to show that the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. harmed the environment.
While the report did not specifically accuse anyone of misconduct, it raised serious questions about governmental misuse of scientific data.
"I find it troubling and unacceptable that the National Park Service exaggerated the effects of the oyster population on the ... ecosystem," U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., wrote in a letter Tuesday to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
In fact, the farm, which operates under a federal lease until 2012, had no demonstrable negative impacts on the bay's ecosystem, harbor seals or native eelgrass, biologists with the independent National Research Council found.
The findings were widely seen as vindication for the oyster company, which has been embroiled in a rancorous dispute with the Park Service over its impact on the pristine estuary along the Point Reyes National Seashore.

Scientists side with Drakes Bay oyster farmer - SFGate

 

[OKTexas]

Just another example of the eco-weenines trying to push us back to the 16th century, and this regimes compliance.

 

[Freewill]

But the government said...they never lie, except for this and Benghazi.