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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.

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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: McGruff
So Dyke Destroyed Dike?

If only Biden had put finger in the dike...

41 posted on 05/23/2020 9:45:38 AM PDT by seowulf
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To: rktman

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).


42 posted on 05/23/2020 9:46:35 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: rktman

I’m sure big media will talk about this. Just wait. /sarc


43 posted on 05/23/2020 9:47:05 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: RightGeek

David Crosby.


44 posted on 05/23/2020 9:54:04 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: rktman

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.


45 posted on 05/23/2020 9:54:17 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: RightGeek
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.



46 posted on 05/23/2020 10:00:05 AM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: McGruff

Where’s Hans Brinker when you need him!


47 posted on 05/23/2020 10:03:25 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: rktman

So they ended up killing them all..


48 posted on 05/23/2020 10:15:20 AM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: frank ballenger

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.


49 posted on 05/23/2020 10:19:06 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: rktman

So, how are those mussels doing now?


50 posted on 05/23/2020 10:24:08 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Larry Lucido

“So how are the mussels doing?”

It’s all just a shell game.


51 posted on 05/23/2020 10:26:01 AM PDT by moovova (Words are fun.)
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To: rktman
"Whitmer’s radical attorney general, Dana Nessel. "

Main monkey to the witch of November.


52 posted on 05/23/2020 10:28:42 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Joe Boucher

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.


53 posted on 05/23/2020 10:29:48 AM PDT by Bommer (I'am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: rktman

Is there anything a Lesbian AG doesn’t know?


54 posted on 05/23/2020 10:30:00 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: rktman

Wait till the lawyers see this.


55 posted on 05/23/2020 10:49:57 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: JParris; SunkenCiv; BenLurkin

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.


56 posted on 05/23/2020 10:52:20 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but ABCNNBCBS donates every hour, every night, every day of the year.)
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To: RightGeek

I think an appropriate caption would be, “Bang!”.


57 posted on 05/23/2020 10:52:25 AM PDT by Dawgmeister
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To: Ann Archy

They aren’t mutually exclusive...


58 posted on 05/23/2020 10:56:39 AM PDT by Dawgmeister
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To: rktman

Who’s running that state anyway? Kindergarteners?

Save the Invasive species?? Huh?

Illegals, Islamic terrorists, Mussels..

What next, RINOs?


59 posted on 05/23/2020 10:56:43 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: rktman

The Real Doll tweet....

What a friggin deviant.
Hope you are proud of your vote Michigan..


60 posted on 05/23/2020 10:56:54 AM PDT by mowowie
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