Oh man... Elmer Fudd is singing "Chute the wibrels, chute the wibrels" in my head.
Posted on 08/19/2004 9:52:27 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) - Environmentalists sued the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Thursday for approving the expansion of the Cache Creek Dairy without a permit.
The Sierra Club said supervisors caved to pressure from the dairy's owner to give their blessing to nearly double the size of the county's largest dairy - from 1,500 to 2,800 cows.
The environmental group said that if the county required a permit it would have triggered an environmental review to determine how much air and water pollution the expansion would create.
Four years ago, in response to the dairy's creation, the board amended a zoning code to require permits for new or expanding dairies.
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I want a lawyer to explain to me how environmental groups get to sue immediately any government action they don't like. Why can't a citizen automatically sue about gun laws and get injunctions within a few months and get their case heard. Why do these groups have standing. I read an article in the past and if I remember right it said that when environmental laws are passed the congress agress that governmental bodies can be sued. Can someone explain this to me?
They are the new mob!
Why does anyone need to expand dairy herds? There is a tremendous glut of dairy products on the market due to price supports.
April 22, 2001, Modesto Bee published an article about Sierra Club board member Chad Hanson. Hanson showed up at a Sierra Club meeting at one of the city's finest hotels in 1997. "Here I had just been elected to the largest grass-roots environmental group in the world and I am having martinis in the penthouse of the Westin St. Francis," said Hanson, an environmental activist from Pasadena.
"What's wrong with this picture? It was surreal." Soon, Hanson was calling the Sierra Club by a new name: Club Sierra.
The article said high-rise offices, ritzy hotels and martinis are but one sign of wider change. Rising executive salaries and fat Wall Street portfolios are another. Put the pieces together and you find a movement estranged from its past, one that has come to resemble the corporate world it often seeks to reform.
"Salaries for environmental leaders have never been higher. In 1999 -- the most recent year for which comparable figures are available -- chief executives at nine of the nation's 10 largest environmental groups earned $200,000 and up, and one topped $300,000."
Further:
"In 1997, one group fired its president and awarded him a severance payment of $760,335. Money is flowing to conservation in unprecedented amounts, reaching $3.5 billion in 1999, up 94 percent from 1992. But much of it is not actually used to protect the environment. Instead, it is siphoned off to pay for bureaucratic overhead and fund raising, including expensive direct-mail and telemarketing consultants. Subsidized by federal tax dollars, environmental groups are filing a blizzard of lawsuits that no longer yield significant gain for the environment and sometimes infuriate federal judges and the Justice Department. During the 1990s, the U.S. Treasury paid $31.6 million in legal fees for environmental cases filed against the government. "
They such hypocrites. It's all about money. It's always about money.
Enviromentalism Sierra Club-style.. Whata ride!
Nothing like a career in a cottage industry , living life high on the hog at the expense of a bunch of chumps.
Oh man... Elmer Fudd is singling "Chute the wibrels, chute the wibrels" in my head.
Thats singing
I think I also read somewhere that the government will also pick of the tab for the lawsuits. A lawyer employment act.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Oh man... Elmer Fudd is singing "Chute the wibrels, chute the wibrels" in my head.
You've got that right and there are over 4000 similar "cells" doing the same thing in this country...
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