Thomas McClintock actually said...

"I think our common sense tells us that any fish or mammal population is going to move away from such an annoying sound."

"It is a double standard, then. It is not the seismic testing, it is the purpose of the seismic testing?"

"Yet, we do not see coincidence with the population of other whale species in the North Atlantic."

"Ironically, it may have been saved from outright extinction by--wait for it--fossil fuels, which made whale oil obsolete."