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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: Bratch

By what?


61 posted on 05/23/2020 10:59:30 AM PDT by Dawgmeister
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To: Bratch

Come to think of it, her face is sort of shaped like a bicycle seat...


62 posted on 05/23/2020 11:00:41 AM PDT by Dawgmeister
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To: RitchieAprile
but, what does it mean? the gang sign, that is.

I don't know what it's supposed to mean in American Sign Language (for the deaf). But in middle school, a big "L" with thumb and forefinger means, "Loser!"

Priceless.

63 posted on 05/23/2020 11:03:14 AM PDT by SamuraiScot (am)
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To: RitchieAprile

L for LOSER pointing at the Real Doll wanna be investor.


64 posted on 05/23/2020 11:04:20 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Bratch

That pic reminds me of the women that destroyed Star Wars...


65 posted on 05/23/2020 11:07:46 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: dfwgator
I blame Squeeze

Excellent point. Surprise youtube hasn't banned that video for incitement.

66 posted on 05/23/2020 11:14:36 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: Right Wing Assault

Looking at the kids, I'd say Pete Buttgrieg.


67 posted on 05/23/2020 12:03:49 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC)
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To: rktman; mhking

If this is true...then...just d-mn!


69 posted on 05/23/2020 12:29:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BobL

WE need to get it in Trump’s radar repeatedly!!!


70 posted on 05/23/2020 12:38:33 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: frank ballenger

wisconsin is also roughly 50/50 but we get the illinois cheating machine helping madison and milwaukee libs busing people,in.


71 posted on 05/23/2020 1:33:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rktman

Ayn Rand could have included this disaster in one of her novels.


72 posted on 05/23/2020 2:39:51 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Secret Agent Man
wisconsin is also roughly 50/50 but we get the illinois cheating machine helping madison and milwaukee libs busing people,in.

Non Wisconsin residents arriving by bus to illegally vote?

A shame if some buses don't make it. Mechanical or other problems come up. A real shame.

73 posted on 05/23/2020 3:20:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

It’s been going on for a long time.

Bussed into the milwaukee, racine and kenosha areas, and some from areas in north illinois further west, into the madsion area.


74 posted on 05/23/2020 3:25:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well, tell ‘em to git. Git you varmints or taste my shotgun pellets.

Seriously, someone in our mamby pamby soft and cuddy GOP should fight them hard for their election crimes. Our country is at stake. Dems and socialists will NOT be nonviolent and law abiding like we have been when they take power again. God help us all.


75 posted on 05/23/2020 3:30:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Larry Lucido
"How are the mussels doing?"

Getting a bit sunburned...


76 posted on 05/23/2020 5:15:11 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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Well, there won’t be issues of not social distancing on boats on the affected MI lakes and river! Gestapo Gretchen is pleased.

And, there will soon be many cheap ex-waterfront homes available!


77 posted on 05/23/2020 5:20:39 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: rktman

Clearly the dyke failed.


78 posted on 05/23/2020 7:51:12 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: rktman

Nessel eats Martha’s Mussel.


79 posted on 05/23/2020 9:01:02 PM PDT by wetgundog ( MASK AND OPEN STORES AND DINING)
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To: JParris

Many pics here: https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/WixomLake?src=hashtag_click


80 posted on 05/24/2020 5:51:22 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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