it's not the crack, it's the pipe:
“The oil and gas industry in operating under the kind of rules they have operated under for 15 years has not been a threat to the species,” H. Dale Hall, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s director, told the Associated Press Friday. “It was the ice melting and the habitat going away that was a threat to the species over everything else.”Cappiello/AP/commondreams 15.Jun.08