Bay - Haven’t seen you around here much lately, I hope that is for a good reason, ie, busy working.
Well, things have gotten significantly worse in this state, regarding the NGOs and the government. It’s scary stuff and it’s difficult to even get anyone to listen because they have convinced so many of the Republicans that the COAL is in their best interests.
What they are scheming is to ram this coal terminal through with little to no prior environmental evaluation, claiming that they will charge for the mitigation after the fact, putting the oversight and control of the mitigation funds under the purveyance of the NGOs, the Puget Sound Partnership.
They are doing this through regulations which create a fee in lieu of mitigation plan, first in the country as a precedent, then on the state level. It’s basically a buy off to the NGOs. If they don’t oppose the project, they get to control all the mitigation funds to be used as they wish, where ever they wish.
They are trying the same kind of thing with the farm plans, trying to get state control of implementing farm plans, so they don’t have to go through the approval process on the county level, but they are running into resistance at the local level because the local NGOs don’t want to give up control of the fees. The cash is really what this is all about, money and control.
The environmental scamming business continues to be my focus. We were successful in causing county commissioners to abandon their ICLEI membership in Clallam County and we constantly share the news about our effort to turn back the Agenda 21 movement in America.
No enough people realize how important this is, but we are keeping on. Constant news can be found on our Facebook liink.