It's all related, folks. Whether disappearing forests or polar ice, the trend is definitely in the wrong direction, and it doesn't help to have deniers and oil industry errand boys like Rick Perry still blathering on about no scientific consensus. even as his drought-ravaged state burns.
Or Scott Walker pushing anew under the misleading heading of "job-creation" for easier permissions to fill the state's wetlands.
These one-dimensional leaders are wrong, at public expense, but, t may be too late to turn it around.
"The second piece of proposed legislation that advocates say is designed to make it easier for mining to occur in northern Wisconsin concerns environmental standards for piers, wharves and other structures. A phrase in the bill summary released by Walker states the bill will address "the placement of deposits and structures on the beds of navigable waters and the removal of materials from the beds of navigable waters."
ReplyDelete"The Republicans will say this is a piers bill," Sayers says. "But to build a strip mine, you have to dig. That creates a lot of dirt and earth that contains mercury, which will then run into Lake Superior."
THE WEASEL STRIKES AGAIN!