Posted on 02/18/2016 1:41:33 PM PST by MichCapCon
:: the EPA let everyone who supported putting the road through continue to diligently work out every minute detail, step by step ::
Which, of course, costs money at every level.
Next time...lesson learned.
The stranglehold on our government, thus our lives by the environmentalists is incredible.
The environmentalists are the major supporters, the BIG MONEY behind the Democrat party. Virtually everything the environmentalists want is dictated through the Democrat party.
The only good Democrat isn’t.
And the fact that the EPA is creating dangers by forcing the Trucks to continue using the public roads.
It’s time for Congress to act. Not that they will, just that they should.
Look this is a fight between a large foreign mining company and people whose land is in the way, and other mines with their large mining companies and the people who don’t want the ships to change docks.
This has nothing to do with jobs. Right now there are trucking jobs and two mills running. The Eagle mill has been running since the 1800’s. I was just watching the UP200 in Marquette. Which is a 200 mile dog sled race. They could put the ore on sleds and get those dogs working for real.
Republicans should stay out of this. Its billionaires fighting billionaires. If Rio Tinto’s profits can get a little better by using one mill instead of two, why do we care. Clearly they didn’t pay off enough officials.
My point was that the localities and MI_DOT should have stopped spending so much money until the EPA gave them the “Go”, which was never intended from the start.
YOUR tax money was wasted because of EPA’s political workings.
This has little to do with Environmentalists. The mines have been around for a very long time. And their were railroads along the route. This is simply a case of the worlds largest mining company buying two mines and trying to operate them with fewer workers. If they blow a road straight through peoples farms they could use bigger trucks and they could build their own port and not use the one in Marquette. Rio Tinto is not our problem. And republicans should not be on the side of taking peoples farms or parks.
At the very least there should be a time limit on EPA foot dragging. The EPA should issue their ruling in a timely manner or the project can proceed.
Its reminiscent of the clean coal plant they were going to build near Richardson. The planners spent a decade in court, getting things approved by the EPA etc. When it was finally approved by the EPA, the Granholm DEQ declared that the project wasn’t needed.
Same with the waste-to-energy project east of Albion (1990s).
So much local effort and money. The DEQ came in and said, “Nope! Everyone go home.”
I was actually commenting on the EPA. An aside to the article.
It’s a county road. It should be a county issue unless they plan to pave it with depleted uranium.
Its mostly wilderness. I think people often forget how rugged some parts of Michigan really are.
Build the road. Have the county Sheriff block any federal law enforcement activity. Time to take back what is ours.
Wow! There are farms in the McCormick Tract of the Upper Peninsula?
Say, maybe you could post up the planned route of the county road they're talking about, so we can look at these farms and parks they're going to pave over, with Google satellite.
There's no farms, poinq. Well, unless you count the Moose Farm, or the Wolf Farm. :)
If you blindfold someone and drop them out there they might think they had been dumped somewhere in the Northwest territories or sub tundra Alaska.
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