Posted on 06/30/2002 6:07:10 AM PDT by chance33_98
Homebuilder charged with Endangered Species Act violations
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A developer who wanted to build 3,200 homes in Pittsburg has been charged with violating the Endangered Species Act.
West Coast Homebuilders Inc. of Concord was charged in U.S. District Court in Oakland Friday with two counts of violating the act after authorities said a department of Fish and Game warden found a dead California red-legged frog on the site last year.
Prosecutors say Albert Seeno Jr. owner of the company ordered his workers to fill in ponds that were home to the endangered frog.
The frog is believed to be the one Mark Twain made famous in his short story ``The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.'' It was put on the endangered species list in 1996, and has disappeared from nearly three-quarters of its natural range.
The company could be placed on five years' probation and fined if convicted of violating the act. The company is expected to plead July 19.
Seeno's attorney Bill Goodman declined to comment on the case Saturday.
You don't know what is.
I've noticed most "environmentalists" are only self-serving liars:
That is, an "environmentalists" is merely a label for somebody who opposes Republicans, or business - nothing more, noting less.
Clinton could be supported fully by environmentlly extreme-polluting Tyson Foods in Arkansas, but label himself an "environmental candidate" by opposing republicans ... AND NOBODY CARED. (He was a democrat.)
Gore, and anybody else!, declares them an enviromentalist ... and DOES NOTHING positive for the environment in 8 years (until their 23rd-hour decrees at EPA based on illegal "junk" science) ..... and support extreme polution from his supporting companies inTN and NC .... and NOBODY CARES. (He was a democrat.)
Illegal "science" is hidden by democrats in teh EPA ... but the "science community" stands by silently as they falsify evidence.
Bush wants to do something positive for people in the US, while minimizing problems in the ANWAR ... and he is cursed by the democrats as they claim he wants to "kill us all."
Bush is a republican,if only in name.
There is not one piece of evidence that shows any "enviro" has any sense of common sense, of humanity, or of "economic practice." Nor much of a sense of law and order or justice.
Only extreme totalitarism...my side is "right" therefore "I get to break the rules" and do what I think is just .... based on "my emotions".
I'm not really that heartless, but I was having fun.
She says when/if she gets pregnant she's going to eat meat because the doctors say the baby needs it.
Oh...I almost forgot. She eats frog legs!!!!No chicken. What the he!! is that about?
Her single mom just couldn't afford meat (her story) so she just lost the taste for it.
Although being a somewhat vegan, she's absolutely gogeous. And graduated college with 'al' the honors. Never made a B in her whole life.
Her blonde hair is to her calves and she's gonna donate it to the cancer kids when/if she gets preggo. I've had 2 grandkids since the beginning of the year.
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