Gusher Reborn: BP Removes Well Cap For A Better Cap
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"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.
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2 comments:
I will believe a cap when I see it.
Obama said has has been on this since day #1 of the spill.
Why is this such a fubar?
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