Environmental activist gives new meaning to "working within the system"

[Black Landlord]

while 100 protesters demonstrated outside . . .
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/envi...htm?csp=15

[Mac1337]

So what did he accomplish exactly?

[freeradical]

Dakota wrote:
So what did he accomplish exactly?

I'm sure he's in desperate need of a good lawyer now...

:biggrin:

[swampy]

The government controls millions of acres of parks and forests, wetlands and beaches. What really bothers me is the environmentalists get there conservation lands (which are taken off the tax roles) and hold them close to their chest then peer over the fence line at what is going on on the neighboring (taxed) property and think they should control that too!

We have a single highway running north and south through the county. It is the main (6 lane) thoroughfare. Malls, strip malls, 40+ traffic lights in a 20 mile stretch, lots of 18 wheel traffic and in general a real mess. We need a by-pass disparately. There is an ideal route on the west side of town that borders a state park. The right of way is ready to go, but the park environmentalists "friends" keep blocking it. It's not IN the park, but they want to control it anyway. Save the spotted owl (that has thousands of acres inside the park) while people die on the highway all the time.

The extremer enviros are nuts and Robert Redford is one of the biggest. And in the article it talks about not being able to drill because it may distroy "the view". Sounds like Ted Kennedy and NIMBY to the wind farm off shore.

[Black Landlord]

Dakota wrote:
So what did he accomplish exactly?

If you really want to know you can always read past the first two sentences of the article. I appreciate his sacrifice.

[Black Landlord]

freeradical wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
So what did he accomplish exactly?

I'm sure he's in desperate need of a good lawyer now...

:biggrin:
As he is clearly aware, which you would know if your attention span allowed you to read more than a sentence or two at a time.

'fil: sock puppet check . . .

[Black Landlord]

swampy wrote:
The government controls millions of acres of parks and forests, wetlands and beaches. What really bothers me is the environmentalists get there conservation lands (which are taken off the tax roles) and hold them close to their chest then peer over the fence line at what is going on on the neighboring (taxed) property and think they should control that too!

We have a single highway running north and south through the county. It is the main (6 lane) thoroughfare. Malls, strip malls, 40+ traffic lights in a 20 mile stretch, lots of 18 wheel traffic and in general a real mess. We need a by-pass disparately. There is an ideal route on the west side of town that borders a state park. The right of way is ready to go, but the park environmentalists "friends" keep blocking it. It's not IN the park, but they want to control it anyway. Save the spotted owl (that has thousands of acres inside the park) while people die on the highway all the time.

The extremer enviros are nuts and Robert Redford is one of the biggest. And in the article it talks about not being able to drill because it may distroy "the view". Sounds like Ted Kennedy and NIMBY to the wind farm off shore.

Thanks, swampy. You're always a source of amazement for me.

[Mac1337]

Black Landlord wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
So what did he accomplish exactly?

If you really want to know you can always read past the first two sentences of the article. I appreciate his sacrifice.
So what did he accomplish exactly?

[Black Landlord]

Dakota wrote:
[quote=Black Landlord]
[quote=Dakota]
So what did he accomplish exactly?

If you really want to know you can always read past the first two sentences of the article. I appreciate his sacrifice.
So what did he accomplish exactly?
It's in the article, really, I swear.
See the part about holding up the parcels until Obama takes office.
Plus, it turned something most of us weren't aware of (except you of course) into something we are aware of by being newsworthy.
Surely in your world there are people you admire for sacrficing for their causes, even if the results are incremental?

[kj]

Dakota wrote:
[quote=Black Landlord]
[quote=Dakota]
So what did he accomplish exactly?

If you really want to know you can always read past the first two sentences of the article. I appreciate his sacrifice.
So what did he accomplish exactly?
I think that's a fair question. I don't think he accomplished anything, but I guess we'll see. Costing the bidders more doesn't save the land. At any rate, Utah never met an industry it didn't like, and they seem pretty hell-bent on making the place into a pit. Too bad, because most of this type development makes a couple people money, but screws the "common-person". kj.