Posted on 01/30/2003 3:24:26 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
National Environmental Trust
Philip Clapp, president:
“This is the first time President Bush has mentioned the environment in a State of the Union, and the reason is simple: his poll numbers with the swing voters he needs in 2004 — women, independents and suburban voters — are dropping. This was window-dressing pure and simple.
“After two years of rolling back environmental protections, he has discovered there’s a cost. “President Bush’s environmental promises always come with a “Buyer Beware” sign. “His air pollution plan actually allows power plants to pollute more, for a decade longer, than the current Clean Air Act allows. “His forest plan allows timber companies to cut down 3,000 truckloads a year of the great trees in the Sequoia National Monument. [snip]
Sierra Club
Daniel Becker, global warming and energy program director:
“Fuel cells are an important part of a clean energy future, but the president’s rhetoric does not match the reality. President Bush’s FreedomCAR program is built on the flawed Partnership for A New Generation of Vehicles, which squandered billions of taxpayer dollars in research and development but did not bring a single hybrid vehicle to the marketplace. Similarly, the FreedomCAR program funnels millions to Detroit without requiring that they produce a single fuel cell vehicle for the public to purchase.
“The auto industry is using the promise of future fuel cells as a shield against using existing technology to dramatically cut our oil dependence, and pollution, today. This technology is sitting on the shelf while Detroit dithers. Honda and Toyota are producing hybrid vehicles today, the big three are not. Honda has stated that it is using the electric motor of its hybrid as the basis for the fuel cell cars which it is beginning to produce. Meanwhile, FreedomCAR is re-inventing the wheel. Refusing to demand that the Big Three use modern, gas-saving technology is irresponsible. [snip]
Natural Resources Defense Council
David Hawkins, climate director:
It’s surprising how brazen the president is being at taking what are rollbacks and delays and claiming that they are initiatives. Both of the activities (Clear Skies and Healthy Forests) that he featured in his statement last night are prime examples of that.”
“Having a program to accelerate the use of hydrogen fuels is a good idea but the president talked of a car that would be available in 16 years. We need something to deal with the next 16 years ... such as improving the fuel efficiency standards.” [snip]
It goes without saying if clintoon had proposed all this the enviroweenies would have made him a hero.
I heard something interesting yesterday about Iowa. Seems a state rep. has introduced a bill that makes it illeagal to have a shack up honey if there are children living with either person. I'll go find the story in a minute... Go Iowa!! :-)
Billy was busy alright, remember those sales of military technology to China? Seems China then sold it to Iraq.
The ultimate irony is that the Tiger Song system is made from U.S.-manufactured parts and equipment exported to China during the Clinton administration. In 1994, Chinese Gen. Ding Henggao obtained the advanced fiber-optic system through his contacts inside the Clinton administration.
According to documents obtained using the Freedom of Information Act, Ding was a close friend of Clinton Secretary of Defense William Perry. In 1994, Ding had risen to command the Chinese army's military research bureau "COSTIND," or the Commission on Science Technology and Industry for National Defense. Full story
I'm just speechless at the ignorance of this remark. Tony Blair a fig leaf? What does that make the United Kingdom? Obviously, Robert Scheer knows nothing of history.
Walter Cronkite and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are up in arms about a proposed windmill farm that many want located on Long Island Sound. These bastions of environmentalism are doing the NIBY dance. Seems the Cronkite spread and the Kennedy compound would look out directly onto this proposed windmill farm.
Funny thing is I couldn't find a printed story with this info. (that doesn't mean there isn't one, I just couldn't find it.) So... we have a CNN story on realplayer where Cronkite asks the burning question, "Will whales be able to find their way around these windmills? Will the dolphins?" (For years we've heard from these trolls that whales and dolphins are smarter than us, now they're too stupid to find their way around a post.) All this concern for the environment is a cover for the real problem they have, windmill farms are ugly.
Here's a link to the Save our Sound website. Scroll down just a bit, on the left you'll see a link to the CNN story. Sorry, I couldn't link it.
Newsday had an article in early January about Kennedy's complaints about the Long Island project, specifically, but the story isn't available free of charge from the web site.
Dems don't want to interrupt their fun. It's much more important to keep a shack up honey than to keep a child safe.
"I strongly support wind farms," said environmental lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr., president of the Waterkeeper Alliance. "But you wouldn't put a wind farm in Central Park, and you shouldn't put one off Jones Beach," he said, adding, "The diminished value that the wind farm would impose on the public would not justify the benefits."
I thought that I heard from the video clip that the wind farm would be 6 miles off shore. Please correct me if I'm wrong. No mention of Walter in that story either.
Make no mistake, I wouldn't want that in my backyard either. At least I'm not a hypocrite about it. I prefer the wiser thought of conservation and developing things like hydrogen fuel cells.
Ten prominent figures from various walks of life have written an open letter to President George W Bush urging him to review his stance on the environment.
The letter, in Monday's issue of Time magazine, follows signals that the Bush administration has abandoned the 1997 Kyoto treaty aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which are blamed for global warming. [snip]
The open letter to President Bush stressed the importance of the environment.
The letter signers include former US and Soviet leaders Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev, financier George Soros, physicist Stephen Hawking and actor Harrison Ford.
The other signatories are US Senator and former astronaut John Glenn, former newscaster Walter Cronkite, conservationist Jane Goodall, biologist Edward O Wilson and J Graig Venter, the president of Celera Genomics.
From the letter; "There are many strategies for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions without slowing economic growth. In fact, the spread of advanced, cleaner technology is more of an economic opportunity than a peril.
"The future of our children - and their children - depends on the resolve that you and other world leaders show," the letter said. Full story
Thanks for putting your backyard where your mouth is grandpa!
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