Posted on 09/14/2020 12:27:25 PM PDT by karpov
Wisconsin’s attorney general seeks to rob the state’s citizens of their sovereignty. He is trying to grab power that does not belong to him and wants to make mischief while avoiding oversight. This lawless behavior — aimed today at Wisconsin’s farmers and tomorrow at small towns — must be checked.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Attorney General Josh Kaul oppose a number of Wisconsin farmers in a legal dispute that focuses on high-capacity wells. The specific questions in that dispute are whether Wisconsin farmers can use high-capacity wells and under what conditions. (A high-capacity well is one that can withdraw more than 100,000 gallons a day.) These wells are critical to many of Wisconsin’s farmers, who use them to irrigate crops and to raise livestock. (Many small towns also use high-capacity wells.) While access to such wells is important during a “regular” farming cycle, if there is such a thing, it is even more so during times of drought, when deep, high-capacity wells can serve as their only sources of water. Simply put, access to high-capacity wells can make the difference between prosperity or destitution for Wisconsin farmers.
The attorney general seeks to avoid laws intended in part, to protect those farmers. The Wisconsin legislature passed a series of laws that expressly define the conditions under which the DNR can grant or deny permits to build and operate high-capacity wells. But the attorney general wants the power to ignore that legislation and make the law as he sees fit. He wants the DNR to have the power to impose non-legislative conditions on farmers who seek high-capacity wells. He believes he is a better steward of the people’s waters, and the environmental impacts to them, than the legislature, farmers, and the people themselves.
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wasn’t this the state with the john doe investigations against republicans????
The high capacity deep wells are needed for irrigation and stock watering in times of drought. Droughts in Wisconsin occur but are usually of short duration, unlike the ones in the US west which can last several years or even a decade.
As Wisconsin gets a good amount of rain and is near two Great Lakes, our deep aquifers are rapidly replenished after a drought. The deep wells are not drawing amounts to exhaust the aquifers. Our A G Kaul is just virtue signaling to the New Green Deal nutters.
Every time you have to get a 'permit' to do something, you have given huge and completely arbitrary power to some government cretin.
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