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Ignoring Warnings, Mich. AG Sued to RAISE Lake Level Ahead of Dam Break—to Protect Mussels
pjmedia.com ^ | 5/22/2020 | David Forsmark

Posted on 05/23/2020 8:18:48 AM PDT by rktman

In her ongoing audition to be Joe Biden’s veep pick, Michigan Governess Gretchen Whitmer all but convicted a private dam owner for the disastrous floods that struck the middle of the state last Wednesday.

However, it wasn’t the dam company that was trying to save a few clams—it was Whitmer’s radical attorney general, Dana Nessel.

Nessel was suing the dam company to raise the lake level three feet in order to save mussels—both endangered and common—and in their response, the dam company cited safety as a reason for not doing so.

But to Dana Nessel, who is also suing to keep Michigan’s chilly Upper Peninsula from having a reliable source of propane, citing an imaginary concern over a pipeline across the Straits of Mackinac, people come second. A distant second.

For decades, federal regulators demanded changes to the design of the Edenville Dam to make it more likely to withstand heavy rains and avoid flooding.

So when Michigan regulators assumed oversight of the dam in late 2018 after its owners lost their federal license to generate energy, they took action.

To protect mussels.

Three weeks before the 96-year-old dam failed this week amid heavy rains and caused the worst flood in Midland history, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sued its owner, alleging it illegally lowered Wixom Lake in 2018 and 2019, killing “thousands if not millions, of freshwater mussels.”

“Defendants wrongfully exerted dominion over the freshwater mussels and caused their death which denies and is inconsistent with the state’s right to them,” state lawyers wrote in an April lawsuit.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: classactionfodder; criminal; dananessel; flooding; fubar; gestapogretchen; governatrix; michigan; stoopid; water; wretchedgretchen
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To: rktman
So Dyke Destroyed Dike?
21 posted on 05/23/2020 8:44:17 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: deks; rktman
Let's flesh this out a bit [state complaint from Herr Nessel's office]:

Here's the entire state lawsuit PDF from May 1st:

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/ag/Boyce_Drawdown_-_Summons_and_Complaint_691369_7.pdf

22 posted on 05/23/2020 8:48:10 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: rktman
mussels... i think the AG has them tween the ears
23 posted on 05/23/2020 8:48:10 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: rktman

How EVIL can Michigan “representatives” get? Depths BEYOND citizen’s comprehension because most humans DO NOT think like they do.

https://johnquincy.blogspot.com/2012/01/psycho-labyrinth-of-psychopath-1-when.html

More references? OK...Without Conscience - Dr. Robert Hare, Inside the Criminal Mind - Stanton Samenow.


24 posted on 05/23/2020 8:48:16 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: rktman

Say, ain’t this the same AG who threatened to ban Trump from visiting the state?


25 posted on 05/23/2020 8:52:01 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Larry Lucido

So how are the mussels doing?


I am guessing their overall health has taken a severe downturn.

It almost sounds like the efforts to prevent forestry management in the Western US to “save the critters” and prevent the release of “CO2” that results in mega-fires where the critters are burned alive and most of the carbon is released in days and the ground is sterilized for many years afterwards.


26 posted on 05/23/2020 8:52:17 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: RightGeek

LOOO-Zerr!


27 posted on 05/23/2020 8:55:20 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Right Wing Assault

Whose are they, and by what process?

(Artificial, dumped husband, adopted, etc)


29 posted on 05/23/2020 9:03:55 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rktman

So what would be the status of the mussels, I wonder, if the damn had never been built?


31 posted on 05/23/2020 9:07:40 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Wonder who the sperm donor was?


32 posted on 05/23/2020 9:17:00 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: rktman

They were protecting zebra mussels?!?


33 posted on 05/23/2020 9:22:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: rktman

Is the state responsible for all the damage this caused?


34 posted on 05/23/2020 9:22:55 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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To: ping jockey

but, what does it mean? the gang sign, that is.


35 posted on 05/23/2020 9:23:46 AM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: mewzilla

Only references to mussels I can find in old reports are to zebra mussels...

Good gad.


36 posted on 05/23/2020 9:25:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: rktman

They had to relocate the mussels to save them.

People were in the way.

It happens.


37 posted on 05/23/2020 9:37:00 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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To: mewzilla

Yup, they burst a dam to protect an invasive species. Follow the money, who’s house is on the lake?


38 posted on 05/23/2020 9:41:16 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: rktman

I believe that at some point in our lives all of us have either directly or indirectly caused the wrongful deaths of mussels.

I was responsible for taking out a whole colony of them at a French restaurant earlier this year.


39 posted on 05/23/2020 9:41:49 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: edwinland

I believe that at some point in our lives all of us have either directly or indirectly caused the wrongful deaths of mussels.

I blame Squeeze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn0Rzi1s5iU


40 posted on 05/23/2020 9:45:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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