Thanx for the ping Army Air Corps !
Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/09/2012 5:50:51 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
In a case watched closely by energy companies and manufacturers, the Supreme Court is set to consider Monday whether to blunt one of the government's chief tools for enforcing the Clean Water Act.
Based on "any information"—even a newspaper article or an anonymous tip—the Environmental Protection Agency can issue an administrative compliance order directing a property owner to stop discharging pollutants or restore a damaged wetland. The government says such directives, similar to stop-work orders by local zoning inspectors, allow it to respond rapidly to prevent environmental damage.
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Mr. Sackett, 45 years old, says the 0.63-acre property was a gift from his wife, who bought it from a friend for $23,000. In May 2007, three days after workers started clearing the property, officials from the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers showed up to ask if the Sacketts had a permit to fill in wetlands. The officials said they were acting on an anonymous tip. Nearly seven months later, the agency sent the couple a compliance order directing them to restore the property to its original condition.
The Sacketts, who run an excavation company, disputed that the property was a wetland, noting that it is in a subdivision.
Government run amuck.
This is just another reason Hussein must be defeated in November
Every damn rule that comes from the EPA should be taken to court from those who can
afford it. Most small businesses can't.
That's what I figured. Most likely a neighbor with the lake front property on the other side of the road (already blocking the "natural" wetlands water outlet) who didn't want someone building in their back yard.
The State/County already filled in for a (second) roadway farther back from the coast to separate the inland wetlands from the shoreline.
EPA Ping.
Yet another example of how we need to completely rewrite and tighten up these laws to require enforcement based on evidence, not rumor and speculation.
Rewrite the laws yes, and... the VICTIMS of these out of control agencies need to start taking matters into their own hands. Take a few of these tyrants out to the wood shed and beat the living liberty into them with a bat.
Positions of unaccountable power attract leftist busybodies like moths to a porchlamp.
It’s not enough to get “our” moths in these positions,
we have to bust out the lamp.
Another comment if you don’t mind...
small businesses can’t afford these mandates,
and that’s the very reason big businesses don’t fight these rules -
it stifles their competition.
You might want to check again on exactly who was president when this particular issue started for them. Hint: 1997
My point is Hussein will continue to load courts and bureaucracies with socialists like himself. I think it is imperative he lose in November.
My point is Hussein will continue to load courts and bureaucracies with socialists like himself. I think it is imperative he lose in November.
That nails it.
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