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Oh, the horrors of suburban SPRAWL! It won’t happen in WA State, though. The Lefties, here, got a jump start on the Agenda 21 all the way back in 1993 with the Growth Management Act. The lengths that they are willing to go to insure their agenda is followed are downright Machiavellian.

Storm water is the newest control method, managed by unelected storm water boards that are appointed for life and cannot be removed by either elected officials or the tax payers. In my area of Whatcom County, the zealotry of the left has come back to bite them, though.

When the storm water district was created in 2007, it included all of the Cherry Point Industrial zone, which included two refineries, Intalco Aluminum plant and the land where they want to build the coal terminal. I uncovered a state dept of ecology document that identified BP and Intalco as being the two largest property owners, having the greatest impact on the Lake Terrell watershed, so I proceeded to ask the CH2MHill contractor, who had been hired to set up the district, how they could eliminate BP from the fee schedule if they were one of the biggest property owners in the area. The CH2MHILL guy said that they could not exempt BP or any of the commercial properties, that it would be illegal, but they did it anyway. Instead of paying the fee for the storm water on their property, BP offered to fund the secretive stormwater advisory and placed an employee on the board. They then set it up so that the county would have no say in the storm water regulation of the proposed coal terminal at Cherry Point, or the fugitive coal dust that will pollute the lake from the open coal piles. They even appointed a multi-modal transportation specialist (trains to ships) to manage the storm water district, instead of a storm water specialist. Since BP has a vested interest in the coal terminal, everything that they did was illegal.