Posted on 05/30/2012 6:59:43 PM PDT by SteelToe
A bipartisan group of Capitol Hill lawmakers is pressing EPA Director Lisa Jackson to answer questions about privacy issues and other concerns after the agency used aerial surveillance to monitor livestock operations over their home state of Nebraska.
“Farmers and ranchers in Nebraska pride themselves in the stewardship of our state’s natural resources. As you might imagine, this practice has resulted in privacy concerns among our constituents and raises several questions,” says the letter signed by Republican Reps. Adrian Smith, Jeff Fortenberry and Lee Terry, as well as Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson and GOP Sen. Mike Johanns.
Smith, co-chairman of the Modern Agriculture Caucus and the Congressional Rural Caucus, said Tuesday the operations in many cases are near homes so “landowners deserve legitimate justification given the sensitivity of the information gathered by the flyovers.”
The letter asks nearly two-dozen questions including why the inspections are being conducted, how many flights have occurred and whether they have resulted in any enforcement activities.
“Nebraskans are rightfully skeptical of an agency which continues to unilaterally insert itself into the affairs of rural America,” Smith added.
The Environmental Protection Agency uses aerial surveillance across a swath of the Midwest know as Section 7 – which includes Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri -- and has defended the practice as cost-efficient.
The agency declined to comment Wednesday. The letter gave the agency until June 10 to respond.
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Johanns might as well be a democrat; He was for card check and the unions.
Dry run practice for when the Food Stamp President loses and tries to retain power. Predator strikes on the homeland red states?
Sorry, there bucky. My astigmatism engaged. So what’s the excuse for the ONE Democrat senator? This isn’t exactly his first term there.
Thank you. My eyes are blue. One blew that way, and one blew the other.
We live in Central Texas and a few weeks ago I saw what I thought was a drone fly over my family’s ranch. It made no sound and I watched it for some time. It was just North of me and was headed West, turned towards the South, flew a minute or so, then turned again and headed towards the direction it had come from. The turns were all made over the ranch. I wish I knew what it was and what it’s purpose was.
Shoot it down and make it talk.
why not? worked for Iran. Obama might do a little more than ask for it back though. Considering your not one of his people.
You'll probably find out some morning at about 3 AM with a flash-bang just before they shoot your dog.
They come to our county and while sitting on the side of the road in their cars and using binoculars count cow pies in our fields. Supposedly this is to make sure we are not over grazing but it is really about runoff.
I saw one of the hairy armpit chicks (no I did not inspect but assumed this is what it was) out one day so I got out the chain harrow and tractor and spread all the cow stuff on about 80 acres as fast as I could go. She soon left.
“Multiple auto Twin 50’s on every farm/ranch.”
One of those quad 50 anti aircraft mounts should do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5rD67A0UQ
IMO, we’re living in the Liberal Twilight Zone of Insanity.
Business costs seem to be always increasing. ;-)
It may be just me, but having to use “EPA” and “drone” in the same sentence is a pretty clear indicator that we’ve long passed the point where things be turned around without massive social disorder/upheaval etc.
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