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CA: Energy Panel Broke Law, Groups Say (OK'd El Segundo power plant - envirowacko Alert!)
LA Times ^ | 3/24/05 | Sara Lin

Posted on 03/24/2005 8:38:15 AM PST by NormsRevenge

In legal papers filed with the state Supreme Court, environmentalists have accused California energy regulators of violating state law by approving an expansion of the El Segundo power plant without requiring operators to study the potential harm to marine life.

Santa Monica Baykeeper and Heal the Bay alleged in the filing last week that the California Energy Commission went against state recommendations to study the effects of large water pipes that suck in and destroy trillions of marine organisms every year.

El Segundo plant operators plan to increase the amount of Santa Monica Bay seawater pulled in by 25%, for an annual total of about 127 billion gallons. The water is used to cool the plant's generators.

Environmentalists don't oppose the plant's expansion, and are not trying to put California in another energy crisis, said Mark Gold, executive director of Heal the Bay. "We're just saying, 'Look, it's your responsibility if you're using the ocean as a resource to make sure you're not depleting it.' "

The commission, which licenses thermal power plants greater than 50 megawatts, has until the end of today to file its response. Legal counsel for the commission was unavailable to comment.

A spokesman for Dynegy Inc., which co-owns the plant with NRG Energy Inc., said the company also planned to file a response. "Our position is that we believe the CEC conducted a thorough review of the application before granting the permit," said David Byford.

The commission's decision at El Segundo flies in the face of recent environmentally sensitive approaches to coastal power plant development, environmentalists said. Huntington Beach's AES power plant was recertified in 2001 during the state's energy crisis, yet regulators still required the owners to determine the effects of its ocean-intake pipes on marine life.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: baykeeper; brokelaw; dynegy; energy; energypanel; environment; groups; healthebay; powerplant; santamonicabaykeeper

1 posted on 03/24/2005 8:38:16 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Here we go again...the power-makers are destroying the ocean. Takes us back to the unanswerable question of "what is an environmentalist?". I think that category (anyone who wants to be one can be...just say you are)...is full of rejects, losers, people who could not make a living in a legitimate job then turn to making trouble for others as a source of income. Hmmm, sounds like alot of far-leftists we know....hand-waving, professional emotionalists....show us the FACTS, THE HARD DATA that says these plants are destroying the ocean....(can we live that long waiting??)


2 posted on 03/24/2005 8:43:52 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: NormsRevenge

"...environmentalists have accused California energy regulators of violating state law..."

Sit in the dark and freeze


3 posted on 03/24/2005 8:54:45 AM PST by SMARTY
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To: NormsRevenge
Screw the Supreme Court. Call out the California National Guard to protect the site and build the plant. Shoot all trespassers. Who is running California, the Supreme Court? Of course, the Court will try to control California like they try to rule the Country.
4 posted on 03/24/2005 9:48:14 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Logical me
Meant the Supreme Court of California trying to rule California.
5 posted on 03/24/2005 9:50:14 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge; Carry_Okie; SierraWasp; farmfriend; tubebender; forester; hedgetrimmer; ...
Santa Monica Baykeeper and Heal the Bay alleged in the filing last week...

I'm sure the state will defend itself vigorously against these envirowackos. /sarcasm

>From Pool Guy to the Halls of Power (Schwarzenegger new Cabinet Secretary, Terry Tamminen)
Los Angeles Times | November 6, 2004 | Miguel Bustillo

Tamminen's unlikely rise began in 1991 when he persuaded the late Disney President Frank Wells to finance Santa Monica Baykeeper, part of a national network of environmental groups dedicated to protecting oceans and rivers. The network is headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a cousin of California First Lady Maria Shriver.


6 posted on 03/24/2005 12:28:58 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: NormsRevenge; calcowgirl
Thought I'd take the lead (and the comments directed to Hostage) off the ol' energy post so that more people might read it.

The supply regulation game is at least as old as the Dutch East India Company's manipulation of coffee prices by controlling access to the plants. Understanding that sorry history of economic tyranny by European corporate royalty, the founders of this nation tried to design a limited government, one that didn't have the power to control private property or have control of resources. Control of access to resources is too much temptation for the wealthy to purchase corrupt influence that depresses everybody else. They Founders failed.

The key to cracking the Constitutional system was international law, a loophole in Article VI Clause 2 of the Constitution, governing the adoption of treaties and the scope of their powers (IMO the rat Patrick Henry and others smelled only too clearly; if you want a good chuckle read Hamilton's defense of the manner of treaty ratification in Federalist #75). To implement the plan European investors needed a foothold in the US before they could get into the market. Until the Civil War, corporations were haltered in the US because they were not allowed to own land and were not protected under the Constitution in a manner co-equal to citizens. After the Civil War the US was deeply in debt to that very European investor class. The 14th Amendment changed that balance of power between the individual and corporate. Once the appropriate Supreme Court cases were in place interpreting persons "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" as including corporate persons, corporations then derived equal protection under the laws and could own property, the investment floodgates opened, and that not only created an American industrial colossus, it produced an American investor class owning enormously influential private tax-exempt foundations.

So it isn't exactly by coincidence that it is those same colossal foundations that are making all those "charitable" donations to those icky Greens. The Environmental Grantmakers Association? That's Rockefeller. The Pew Charitable Trusts? That's Sunoco. W. Alton Jones? That's Citgo. The World Wildlife Fund? BP and Shell. See a pattern?

These are more than investors in energy, their assets include timber, mining, banking, food production… They aren't fools. They use the same simple and ancient recipe as did their European forbears by which to manufacture a predictable return: Kill the competition with regulations, create a shortage, and cash in.

It's a simple process that has accelerated over the last five decades.

  1. Foist the necessary treaty law via (primarily American) NGOs at UN environmental agencies (largely funded by the US government).
  2. Get the implementing legislation through Congress.
  3. Use lawsuits by those same NGOs in federal courts to alter the meaning of the law.
  4. Overwhelm the agencies with graduates brainwashed by professors who subsist of government and foundation grants.
  5. Establish the regulatory power on the local level to control the decision-making with the cheapest politicians money can buy.

It's a vertically integrated racketeering system that extends over the entire planet. American investors in multinational operations are perfectly happy taking a hit on US operations destroying domestic production because their investments abroad get the business. They either convert domestic resource land to real estate or mothball it under tax exempt conservancies, Federal monuments, and such.

It's been done in industry after industry: timber, energy, mining, beef, fish, agriculture, real estate development, soon water… ALL taking advantage of economies of scale in environmental compliance and sometimes selective enforcement. Tax-exempt foundations buy the research "data" they need, fund a few ideological groups trained by the same professorate that lives off their grant money, and not a word need be breathed to the companies in which they are invested. Their pet executives wail about the regulations and scream how stupid and counterproductive they are, just like you do. It makes great theater. There is virtually no way of getting caught.

This is exactly what SPI and Simpson did in the timber business in California (seeing as it is only their two representatives sitting on the Board of Forestry), and it's the same reason we don't log National Forests any more. Weyerhaeuser and Boise Cascade would not approve. They are logging Russia, Borneo, Chile, Sweden… Now 80% of the lumber used in California comes from out of state. If you think this is strictly a Democrat gambit, Mark Rey was a lobbyist for AF&PA.

Enviro-racketeering is a way of shaking out small competition. Subsequent to the power crisis over the last two years, the State still owes big to the producers. Last I heard, the companies that were having the hardest time getting get paid were the little guys, the small private power producers of hydro, wind, etc who sell their output to the larger distributors. Now, in California's regulated market, many of these are "green power" sources, who, by law, get paid at higher than normal producers' rates. I understand how bizarre that subsidy is when all one thinks of is electricity, but there is an economic rationale for it driven by real estate interests. If a critical air basin fails to meet EPA standards, development is curtailed by the Feds. Development interests are the principal investor sponsors of the Democrats in this State. So, if those green producers go bust, we either have to import the power, do without, or build cleaner plants burning more natural gas.

We don't have the pipeline capacity to feed all those new plants or that there is an impending natural gas shortage nationally.

So, what the existing producers in California want is price deregulation, but they aren't exactly enthralled about the price crash that happens when more production comes on line. So, the producers talk as if there's nothing to be done about those stupid air quality regulations and wail about all the money they'll have to raise to build new equipment, and we'll just have to let them have their windfall so that new plants can be purchased with cash. Fancy that, as if cash were that important in a time with effectively zero interest rates. They talk about price deregulation and never mention what to do about SUPPLY REGULATION that will hold up that price by keeping out new entrants and slowing new construction while they get that windfall.

Enter the raw power producer’s natural allies, the environmental groups! Enter Arnold, Jim Brulte, RFK Jr. and his advisors at Earthjustus. Just shocks the hell out of me.

So in California, a nifty strategy would be to kill the competition by getting into trouble and then stall in court on paying suppliers. Bigger companies have the advantage of being supported by overseas operations. The little guys go out of business and sell off their assets for a song. The big ones can reorganize and, unless I misunderstand, who gets paid, how much, and when, that all depends upon the bankruptcy judge followed by a lengthy appellate process. Then deregulate only prices during a supply shortage and cash in. The cost of environmental regulations and local NIMBY groups such as TURN and RFKJr.'s buds at Earthjustus will attack anyone with the temerity to build a new plant as Mr. Bryson's associates in the NRDC did decades ago when they helped shut down Rancho Seco. Lock in the long-term contracts. Refinance the contracts with bonds from Wall Street banks...

That is how has been going, isn't it? There is no other explanation for NRDC founder John Bryson's tenure at Edison, other than perhaps playing the carbon credit market pursuant to that Kyoto treaty we never ratified, reiterating a question you never confronted. Are you really going to sell me on the story that people were financing payments on power costing over $1/KWh and nobody was making money?

So let's see if our little hypothetical gambit has a precedent, shall we? We'll start with that famous scam when the State required that gasoline retailers remove ALL steel underground storage tanks and replace them with new fiberglass tanks because they were supposedly a threat to leak. Of the 12,000 tanks at service stations sampled in California, 48 leaked (some threat). Assuming that the average cost of replacing an underground fuel tank is approximately $100,000 (it can be three times that) and that there are approximately 200,000 such tanks in California, the estimated capital cost was about 20 billion dollars, not to mention the amount of money made burning contaminated dirt. Over 10,000 independent sellers of gasoline went out of business because of the cost thus leaving the major oil companies with a vertically integrated oligopoly. But at least we were safe, right?

Wrong. Enter the Clean Air Act of 1990 mandating oxygenates for both the LA basin and the Central Valley. I don’t suppose you know that it was David Doniger of the NRDC (surprise, surprise) who was the ONLY representative of an environmental NGO at the EPA meetings that approved MTBE as an oxygenate for gasoline? I am told that it was NRDC lawyer Mary Nichols who presided at the CARB hearings in LA as well.

Up until that time methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) had been a byproduct of gasoline production requiring expensive disposal. The oil refiners had been handling the stuff for years; thus the requirements for processing and containment of the material were well understood, as were the byproducts of combustion. (Measurement and documentation of all these things are required for construction of a processing plant, an air quality permit, or for disposal.) Subsequent to their early experiments with MTBE in Anchorage and Denver, it was well understood by BOTH the oil companies and the EPA that MTBE was likely to leak out of plastic fuel tanks and contaminate groundwater. The EPA had documentation to that effect before 1990. It was so well understood that when the EPA demanded of Congress that the oil companies that produce reformulated gasoline (particularly ARCO), demanded they be indemnified in advance for any damage to public health or private property.

Needless to say, the result was contamination of drinking water wells across the State. Well it gets worse. Guess who is now making big moves in forcing State control of private and small municipal water supplies now that the groundwater has been poisoned for ten years? Yup, the NRDC.

NRDC is a LOT bigger player in this mess than most people realize and their historic behavior and that of the oil companies in the oxygenate fiasco are clearly parallel to the gambit in electrical power described above. The addition of MTBE to gasoline cost everyone in the California an extra 30 cents per gallon for ten years. It made ARCO so happy they put Pete Wilson's wife on their board of directors. A lot of that was profit due to the closed market in refinery capacity. Now, guess how hard it is to build more refinery SUPPLY capacity and why? Now guess who would stand squarely in the way of adding more?

Well, who are these guys at the NRDC? It’s an interesting list.

Natural Resources Defense Council Board of Trustees

Chairman

Frederick A. O. Schwartz, Jr.

Partner, Cravath Swaine & Moore; (a British Law Firm) Former New York City Corporation Counsel (under Mayor Ed Koch)

Executive Director

Frances Beinecke

Co-founder, The New York League of Conservation Voters (with RFK Jr.)

Trustee

Laurance Rockefeller

Private philanthropist; Former Chairman, Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Former chairman, Citizens Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality; Trustee, the Laurance Rockefeller Charitable Trust

Trustee

Thomas A. Troyer

Partner, Caplin & Drysdale; Former Chairman, the Foundation Lawyers’ Group; Former member of the IRS Commissioner’s Advisory Group on Tax-exempt Organizations; (no conflict of interest there?) Board member, the Carnegie Corporation of New York

Pres & Co-founder

John H. Adams

Former Assistant US Attorney (New York)

Vice Chair

Adam Albright

Board member, Redefining Progress; Board Chair, Population Communications International; Program Chair, Conservation International

Vice Chair

Alan Horn

Chairman & Chief Operating Officer, Warner Brothers

Vice Chair

Burks Lapham

Chairman, Concern Inc.; Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation (a relatively benign group)

Vice Chair

George Woodwell

Founding Director, Woods Hole Research Center; Co-founder, Environmental Defense Fund (they banned DDT, Alar, etc.)

Co-founder & Treas

Richard E. Ayres

Partner, Howrey & Simon; Former Chairman, National Clean Air Coalition

Trustee

Patricia Bauman

Member, Pew Environmental Health Commission; Former Manager, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences; Co-Director, The Bauman Foundation

Trustee

William Richardson

Former US Secretary of Energy; Former US Ambassador to the United Nations; Former US Congressman (D-NM)

Trustee

Michael Finnegan

Managing Partner, J.P Morgan Securities

 

Is this "Natural Resources" defense, or natural resource SUPPLIERS defense?

Now, let’s look at who gives the NRDC money, shall we?

Top Funders of NRDC

Funder

Total Donated

Comments

Descriptions in bold are major energy investors

Pew Charitable Trusts

$11,568,000.00

Sunoco money

Blue Moon Fund

$7,818,735.00

This is W. Alton Jones Money (Citgo)

Energy Foundation

$6,965,000.00

Launched by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and The Rockefeller Foundation. The Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation joined as a funding partner in 1996, and The McKnight Foundation joined in 1998. In 1999, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation joined to support two programs: the U.S. Clean Energy Program (now the Climate Program) and the China Sustainable Energy Program. In 2002, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation joined to support advanced technology transportation and clean energy for the West.

John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

$5,636,500.00

Bankers Life and Casualty money (investment portfolio unknown)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

$4,681,097.00

Your tax dollars at work subsidizing the interests of whom?

Turner Foundation

$3,795,167.00

CNN, and a lot more

Public Welfare Foundation

$3,500,000.00

Too confounded to determine

Joyce Foundation

$3,309,445.00

Timber Wealth

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

$3,022,340.00

General Motors

Ford Foundation

$2,733,300.00

Ford

Beinecke Foundation

$2,150,000.00

Major player at Yale.

J. M. Kaplan Fund

$2,057,500.00

William Bingham Foundation

$1,995,000.00

Homeland Foundation

$1,733,000.00

San Francisco Foundation

$1,654,739.00

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

$1,377,510.00

Them again

McKnight Foundation

$1,365,500.00

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

$1,310,000.00

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

$1,310,000.00

Bauman Family Foundation

$1,226,000.00

Nathan Cummings Foundation

$1,220,000.00

Educational Foundation of America

$1,210,000.00

Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund

$1,205,000.00

Mertz Gilmore Foundation

$1,201,000.00

Carnegie Corporation of New York

$1,200,000.00

Park Foundation

$1,198,010.00

New York Community Trust

$1,186,821.00

Overbrook Foundation

$1,182,585.00

Surdna Foundation

$1,147,000.00

Bullitt Foundation

$1,122,675.00

William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

$1,075,000.00

Note also the participation with the Energy Foundation

These people are energy investors who use federal money and their own tax-exempt "charitable" donations to fund lawsuits that manipulate access to resources, control processing of energy feedstocks, and set attainment targets in a manner preferential to their own investments. ALL of the resulting capital gains in their trusts are tax-exempt. You may be surprised to find the Hewlett and Packard fortunes listed as energy investors, but they just gave over 130 million to Stanford to research extraction of methane hydrates and are directly tied in with Exxon/Mobil in that effort. Keeping it in the family they've put Lynn Orr, who is married to Susan Packard, in charge of the global energy project. The idea is that they can use the energy revenues and the carbon credits for removing a principal source of atmospheric methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. They need Kyoto or this will be a big loser of an investment. Curiously, if they disturb those nodules foolishly, they may end up releasing a great deal of methane to the surface, which would release the gases into the atmosphere. So, might they need protection from the NRDC in case they screw up?

Did anybody sue the NRDC for the cleanup costs of MTBE?

They can’t be sued. Clinton EO 12986 indemnified them from such lawsuits as members in good standing at the IUCN, the United Nations' equivalent of the EPA.

Using a charitable foundation, to use the law to force people to use your product, to use regulatory power to keep competitors out of the market or force them into selling or go bankrupt, and to protect you from liability for your product in order to reap a guaranteed profit is tax-exempt racketeering, and on a grand scale.

Now, how much of all of this do most executives at Sunoco or Citgo really understand? I’d bet they haven’t a clue. Bryson on the other hand…

So, in reality, there's a damned good reason to do everything possible to reform the regulatory environment of power SUPPLY capacity. To deregulate prices without deregulating supply is a catastrophic recipe for the eventual CUSTOMERS. Remember those? They vote. We should simultaneously restructure the demand side of the market BEFORE price deregulation. The difference means more to customers and the state than just power.

7 posted on 03/24/2005 1:20:27 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Damn, Just damn,, CO,, Thanks!

What's a little fellar to do when confronted by such formidable opponents and such a treacherous agenda?

Candles and coleman lanterns seem in order... but then we'd just be generating soot and expelling more gaseous contaminants into the atmosphere.. Ouch!


8 posted on 03/24/2005 1:30:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
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To: NormsRevenge
If we ever get together to chat, I can tell you what we're doing about it.
9 posted on 03/24/2005 1:39:55 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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To: NormsRevenge; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; AMDG&BVMH; amom; ..
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
10 posted on 03/24/2005 4:20:51 PM PST by farmfriend ( Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?!?)
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To: Carry_Okie; NormsRevenge; calcowgirl
Damn Mark, you leave me feeling completely helpless. Humboldt Bay just got it's own Bay Keepers and I told my children their future took a big hit.

You answer my question, why Simpson Timber doesn't take the hits PL has had. Did you know Simpson changed their name to Ever Green Resources? I think that is the name. My brain is clouded by some local Cabernet...

11 posted on 03/24/2005 5:11:27 PM PST by tubebender
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To: tubebender; Carry_Okie; NormsRevenge
Have ya got any Risling for that Quizling in the State Crapitol??? Merlot is no-go after the movie, ya know...

Way ta go, Carry_O!!!

12 posted on 03/24/2005 5:39:39 PM PST by SierraWasp (GovernMental EnvironMental Parasitic Pissants perpetually tormenting America Progress!!!)
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To: tubebender; farmfriend; SierraWasp
Damn Mark, you leave me feeling completely helpless.

I know that feeling rather intimately. Think about carrying stuff like this in your head for years and seeing it every day in the news, after quitting your job to go through the pain to figure it out, write it all down, and learn what it's going to take to fix it. Then put your last dime into telling people, and be ignored or told, "When you've done it, let me know."

You would think at least people would want to understand so badly that they would go through the personal pain it takes to understand, and once they understood, to take the risk of trying something new, but no.

You would think the greenies, many who really care about nature, would, when they realized they were being used by their enemies, be willing to allow in their minds at least an experiment in freedom, but no.

You would think investors would realize that an honest system produces more wealth and creates new profit opportunities, but no. They're just fine not rocking the boat for a predictable return.

So, I go back to the land, to learn more about how to fix it. It's been an arduous and lonely job, but I will have no moral authority without it. Maybe by accomplishing much of what the bureaucrats cannot, people will recognize that there is something real in what I'm saying.

I don't know what to do until people start listening. I just ask the Lord for direction and grab my weed fork.

You answer my question, why Simpson Timber doesn't take the hits PL has had.

Simpson and SPI both.

13 posted on 03/24/2005 6:56:12 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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To: SierraWasp

You must have cajones of steel to still be living in Californ-i-a. I admire that.

Last I lived out there I carried a shotgun and a buntline. But I lived far, way far out in the bush.

Beautiful country. Too bad the socialist pricks are ruining it.

Hope you got a plan to take it back,

:-)


14 posted on 03/24/2005 7:57:12 PM PST by sergeantdave (Smart growth is Marxist insects agitating for a collective hive.)
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To: sergeantdave; NormsRevenge; farmfriend; calcowgirl; Carry_Okie; Amerigomag; tubebender; ...
"Hope you got a plan to take it back"

You gotta be kiddin, sergeantdave! Not till they revisit and overturn Earl Warren's "Cows Don't Vote" Supreme Court decision, along with all the crappy laws and bureaucrazies installed by every dumb Governor since Pat Brown. (yes, even Reagan signed the CA EnvironMental Quality Act and we have to do an expensive EIR everytime somebody takes a leak out here!!!)

Our heads are still spinning from Schwarzenegger's Stupid Socialistic Sierra-Nevada CONservancy GovernMental layering from Oregone to Bakersfield!!! You know... RFK Jr's wetlands dream!!! It's as hopeless out here with the Republicans as it is with the Deadlycrats!!!

The only possible plan is an out-right revolt, turning said CONservancy into the fifty first state called SIERRA REPUBLIC!!! (and that'll be after I'm dead and gone)(maybe I can be it's first posthumorous Grubinator)(snort!)

15 posted on 03/24/2005 8:45:24 PM PST by SierraWasp (GovernMental EnvironMental Parasitic Pissants perpetually tormenting America Progress!!!)
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To: Carry_Okie; Jim Robinson; All

Has everybody on this thread, including all lurkers, read reply #7??? It's one of the best run-downs of what ails CA recorded anywhere on this beautiful web-site!!!


16 posted on 03/24/2005 8:51:37 PM PST by SierraWasp (GovernMental EnvironMental Parasitic Pissants perpetually tormenting America Progress!!!)
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To: SierraWasp
said Mark Gold, executive director of Heal the Bay.

I swear to G that every pissant fool without a job and a big dope habit appoint themselves to some overblown boolsheep title...and the names of their little one man bands are phrikken pathetic. Heal the Bay my a$$.

We oughta abuse eminent domain and turn their electricity off for the public good. LOL

the fifty first state called SIERRA REPUBLIC!!!

As you well know the Sierra Republic does exist in the minds of many of its citizens...

Secede from the Peeplez Dumbocrappik State of Killaphony!

17 posted on 03/24/2005 9:08:26 PM PST by eldoradude (When all else fails, vote from the rooftops.)
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To: SierraWasp
...all the crappy laws and bureaucrazies installed by every dumb Governor since Pat Brown.

Here's another one of the dummies, enabling Heal The Bay.

Van de Kamp, Wilson Target Environment
Los Angeles Times, January 28, 1990

A Republican candidate for governor is bound to propose an executive approach to California environmental issues. A Democrat can be expected to call for new laws. And that is exactly what Republican Sen. Pete Wilson and Democratic Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp did Saturday as each addressed Heal the Bay, a group dedicated to cleaning up Santa Monica Bay.

Wilson promised to create a state Environmental Protection Agency that would get tough on polluters, bar offshore oil drilling and take the regulation of pesticides away from the Department of Food and Agriculture. (snip)

"As governor, I will be the environmental czar; you don't need another one," Wilson told the 300 conferees at Mount Saint Mary's College in Brentwood.

Wilson reminded those attending the Heal the Bay conference that his environmental record goes back to his role in creating the state Coastal Commission when he was a freshman state assemblyman 20 years ago.

As a U.S. senator, Wilson continued, he has challenged the Ronald Reagan and George Bush administrations' desire to drill for oil off the California coast. And, perhaps most familiar to those present Saturday, Wilson was a leader of the bipartisan effort that in 1988 defeated Occidental Petroleum's plan to drill for oil near the Pacific Palisades shoreline. (snip)


18 posted on 03/24/2005 11:11:09 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: Carry_Okie

EXCELLENT, as always. A must read for all, IMO.

I read it every time you post it, and then some! :-)


19 posted on 03/24/2005 11:23:34 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: farmfriend

BTTT!!!!!


20 posted on 03/25/2005 3:05:21 AM PST by E.G.C.
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