Posted on 03/13/2006 5:27:42 PM PST by talkradiodaily
Cory Christofferson got about 350,000 tires, most of them stacked on their sides, four or five high in straight lines, 15 miles worth, making 20-acre paddocks across 200 acres for intensive grazing by livestock.
Now, state officials have ordered him to haul the tires off his land.
Christofferson is taking them to court.
After years of wrangling with the state Health Department, which first approved of his tire fence idea, Christofferson lost Round 1 in November. That's when an administrative law judge ruled, after hearing the case in Bismarck, that Christofferson's fences were not a "beneficial use," of tires and that the Health Department had the right to manage them as solid waste and order their removal.
That will ruin him, and he's already broke from fighting this long, Christofferson said.
He says it could cost him up to $500,000 to haul away and dispose of them.
His defense should be that he "relied upon" the initial decision. The government shouldn't be able to just change its mind... its equivalent to a taking.
Sounds like a pretty good use of old tires to me. More 'environmentally friendly' than conventional recycling when you factor in all the infrastructure and energy required to re-process them.
Government. The eternal destroyer of good ideas, creativity and productivity.
Mosquitos.
I see how this is. If we have anything that government deems "not beneficial use" they can confiscate it or demand we remit it.
Exactly.
Unless he took steps to prevent the tires from holding water and becoming incubators for the blood thirsty critters, he has constructed the nations largest source of farm bred mosquitos.
Maybe lightning will strike them!
I think gasoline and a match will take care of the whole problem. A little smokey but it will solve any mosquito problem.
Recycling worn out tires has been a pain in the butt for decades now. Back when tires were just rubber, it was not that big of a problem, grind them up, melt them make new tires.
But with steel belts and god knows what else inside them these days, a worn out tire is a nightmare to dispose of.
Fences actually sound like a good idea, if they could be kept from collecting water. I could see how they would be real breeding grounds for mosquitos.
Good idea. NOT!!!
Remember that tire fire in Canada a few years back. That sucker smoldered and belched oily smoke for months and months.
From what I can find, several states allow this type of fence, but the owners have to fight the enviro-nuts and their hand-picked judges.
DDT.... oh wait!! I'm sorry we banned that effective, harmless, non-polluting, environmentally sound insecticide, because of the enviro-whackos... Ummm nevermind.
Benzene Hexachloride... Ooops same story. Oh well!?
Stacked this way, they would burn fast, plenty of access to air.
Looks like they make excellent "drift fences" also.
No I don't remember that. I heard that Canadian tires are square. Is that true.
I heard that there is a coal mine fire in China that has been burning for decades. That it puts out as much pollution as all the cars in the US. Of course, that was Art Bell.
Here's a source other than Art Bell. Chinese Coal Mine Fires
Nope they are triangular.
"I heard that there is a coal mine fire in China that has been burning for decades."
Nope it is in Centralia Pennsylvania.
A coal vein has been burning under the Pennsylvania mining town of Centralia since 1961.
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