Posted on 11/19/2007 7:56:58 PM PST by SandRat
A group of people concerned for the environment toured the border near Sierra Vista to see the newly constructed border fence.
Among them was Congressman Raul Grijalva.
As they tour the border, one of their concerns is about wildlife which won't be able to get across the new fence.
"Anything larger than four inches wide will not be able to cross," says Matt Clark with Defenders of Wildlife.
Another concern is that illegal traffic will be forced into environmentally sensitive river beds.
"We're concerned about effects on hydrology. There's concern riverbeds may shift because of all these structures and increased sedimentation," Clark says.
"Right now we have a 'one fence fits all philosophy' coming from Washington DC. And unfortunately 'one fence fits all' doesn't fit in this terrain," Grijalva says.
Border Patrol says it has followed standard laws covering environmental assessments for all major projects like this one within the federal government.
"That environmental assessment found that there would be no significant environmental impact as a result of this construction project," says Border Patrol spokeswoman Dove Haber.
"In our attempts to make sure the watershed has the least impact possible, we've decided that we're going to work with different types of material," she says.
When it comes to national security and the environment it's all part of a balancing act.
"We've done as much as we can to try and deal with national security issues and mitigate any negative effects to the environment whenever possible," Haber says.
Awwww,... da poor widdle enviroNutz are upset at the Border Fence being built.
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Either that, or woefully ignorant. Shoot, he may even be both!!
Security outweighs wildlife.
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This is Scrappleface, right?
LOL!! Last laugh of the day! Grijalva?
Now I wonder what type of fence would make her happy, then?
None?
Nope! It’s for Real; from KVOA 4 NBC News Tucson Arizona
It’s a him, and he behaves like old B Grade black and white movie character Spanish royalty.
The enviros shouldn’t be allowed to buy or own anything that contains anything from a mine, well, or forest.
Let them starve,freeze, and die in the buff!
They are not at all concerned with the mountains of garbage illegals strew all over the landscape.
awww,... you read the end of Tom Clancy’s book “Rainbow Six.”
That they could care less about.
the reason the enviro-left is upset is that they were COUNTING on environmental excuse law to delay delay delay the fence. Since the fence is exempt from such legal fluff tactics, the left has been trumped by common sense.
Yes I mean he is Mexico's representative in the U.S. House of Representatives.
So the animals have to find another way around the fence. They’ll ADAPT.
Remember how the Envro-morons said that the oil pipeline was going to cause havoc with the wildlife in Alaska? Well, they were wrong there, too, weren’t they? The animals ADAPTED.
Liberal man seems to be the only animal which cannot adapt.
A lie right from the start. I'll bet anyone a cold beer that the great majority of these people are not "environmentalists" in any sense of the word. Rather, they are using their trumped-up concerns as a means of advancing their agenda.
A more commonplace example of false environmentalism is ongoing near my home in Union County, NC (Charlotte burbs). A badly needed freeway has been held up for nearly a decade because of a supposedly endangered species -- a freshwater mussel known as the "Carolina Heelsplitter" which lives in several creeks the freeway would traverse or displace. Now, does anyone really think the anti-freeway "environmentalists" are concerned with the wellbeing of a handful of freshwater mussels? Not likely. They're using these poor mollusks because they don't want a freeway nearby.
Faux environmentalism. It's a common NIMBY tool, used to stop economic development, and now to stop common-sense national security measures, and it's become an epidemic.
“Liar, liar, pants on fire. Either that, or woefully ignorant. Shoot, he may even be both!!”
I vote both!
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