Posted on 05/23/2020 8:18:48 AM PDT by rktman
In her ongoing audition to be Joe Bidens 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 wasnt the dam company that was trying to save a few clamsit was Whitmers radical attorney general, Dana Nessel.
Nessel was suing the dam company to raise the lake level three feet in order to save musselsboth endangered and commonand 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 Michigans 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 states right to them, state lawyers wrote in an April lawsuit.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
If only Biden had put finger in the dike...
I believe Boyce lost their hydropower generation license, maybe at just one dam.
Don’t know the whys and wherefores of that, or of why Boyce still owned the dam(s).
Im sure big media will talk about this. Just wait. /sarc
David Crosby.
Nessel was sworn into office on January 1, 2019.She is the first openly gay person and first openly LGBTQ person elected to statewide office in Michigan. She is the first Democrat to serve as attorney general since Jennifer Granholm left the office in 2003, a gap of 16 years. Nessel immediately withdrew Michigan from several federal lawsuits initiated by its predecessor involving the separation of church and state, LGBTQ discrimination, environmental protection, and abortion.
Nessel is the Lesbian attacking President Trump for not wearing a mask while visiting the ford plant.The Michigan AG is obviously used to having her face covered.
Where’s Hans Brinker when you need him!
So they ended up killing them all..
As an aside, has anybody heard from Michigan Freeper “MarMema”? She was a frequent poster until mid-February and then stopped. Hope she is okay.
So, how are those mussels doing now?
“So how are the mussels doing?”
It’s all just a shell game.
Doubt it. When are liberals ever held to account? They will blame it on ‘act of God’ due to historic rains. Unless it can be proven her actions cause the burst, nothing to sue one. However, there was another dam burst. If it can be shown she did the same thing to that dam as well....then they will find an Obama appointed judge to sweep it under the rug.
Is there anything a Lesbian AG doesn’t know?
Wait till the lawyers see this.
All of them. Those that went downstream were killed in the floodwaters, then in the dried out mud, houses, and fields. Those left behind died in the dried out lake bottom.
I think an appropriate caption would be, “Bang!”.
They aren’t mutually exclusive...
Who’s running that state anyway? Kindergarteners?
Save the Invasive species?? Huh?
Illegals, Islamic terrorists, Mussels..
What next, RINOs?
The Real Doll tweet....
What a friggin deviant.
Hope you are proud of your vote Michigan..
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