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To: Ben Ficklin

Dead zone in the Gulf, red tides in Texas and stinkin seaweed in Galveston........

Non of which is in the Texas news. Galveston has always had a “certain” aroma.

Are you Breaking News or just breaking wind?


23 posted on 08/03/2014 8:55:06 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: X-spurt; Whenifhow; yldstrk
"None of which is in the Texas news"

Do a google news search and they are prominent in the news.

I will say that there are no current stories on the Texas red tide, but there are stories on the Florida red tide. Its a little early in the season for red tide in texas.

And while you are at Google News, you should look at the recent stories covered extensively by the Florida media over the GOP politicians and Big Sugar. Big Sugar generates a lot of run-off pollution.

I'll give it to you briefly but it would take only 20-30 min to get all the details.

Big Sugar is paying for these GOPers to take free trips to the King Ranch in Texas, which is a high dollar hunting ranch. King Ranch is also in the Florida sugar business. So after all these stories run, Gov Scott, who also got a free trip, appointed this man from the King Ranch to a regulatory board in Florida. The short of it is Big Sugar doesn't clean up their pollution, the ratepayers and taxpayers have to pay for it.

Or in the case of the OK-ARK lawsuit I mentioned above, the ARK taxpayers had to pay the judgement that OK won, because ARK allows Tyson and the Tyson contract growers to pollute the river

And I guarantee you, this algae bloom in Lake Eire can be traced back to where it originated before it ran-off into the lake. But they won't do it.

In the US, most of the societal costs of pollution are not paid for by the polluter. Instead, they are externalized or socialized and society pays for them either in the rates they pay or the taxes they pay. There are also nuisance costs. The locals have to adjust their life to the negative impact.

25 posted on 08/03/2014 9:40:56 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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