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For what are we waiting? First, it is imparative to VOTE out the people who allow legislation to be passed that harms ALL of us. Laws must be changed that allow huge corporations to get away with violations that harm air, water, land, and all living beings. I don't believe we can stop screaming at CONGRESS and the WH!
Kend ~ Is that what they call puberty in Canada?
~ Very well said! In fact, I think that is one of your best posts. Take a bow!
Thank you DAnne, I was infected with a moment of clarity and inspiration.
Personally it blows me away that those unbelievable engineers can produce enough safe drinking water to hundreds of millions of people from that crap nature gave us. the place I spend almost every weekend backs onto a small creek coming right off the Rockies. I feel much safer drinking the treated water provided to me then drinking out of that creek. Ever heard of beaver fever?
johnbest ~ Personally, I can't think of a better name for a facilities that is full of raw sewage! Can you?
It's time? This is the year 2014. The protection Laws have been on the books since 1972, when DDT was discovered in bird eggshells.
"The Clean Water Act (CWA); 33 U.S.C. s/s 121 et seq. (1977)
The Clean Water Act is a 1977 amendment to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, which set the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants to waters of the United States.
The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA); 43 U.S.C. s/s 300f et seq. (1974)
Safe Drinking Water Act summary and full text
Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972
http://water.epa.gov/aboutow/owow/laws.cfm "
Therefore, 42 years ago the Laws were enacted and since that time enforcement has been systematically weakened by creating a no-jurisdictional loophole for local state and county environmental departments.
The EPA will only take on the biggest cases, because lawyers have to prosecute and no one wants to lose.
The only other federal jurisdiction with any clout is Army Corp of Engineers, who have already done their own share of destroying watersheds and wetlands. They work for the 5-Star General Corporation anyway.
The Permit Issuing Agency should be held responsible for any violation occurring on a permitted site. Likewise, it is the Permit Issuing Agency which is responsible for enforcing non-permitted violations.
Originally, environmental impacts for development or industry were to be signed off on by the ACOE, the State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and by the environmental office in the county where the impact was proposed. There was so much bickering between state, federal, and county bureaucrats, this triumvirate was dispersed. ACOE is primarily concerned with seawalls, levees, dams, and marine construction, while each county was allowed to decide whether to maintain its own environmental office or abdicate jurisdiction to the state.
This resulted in arbitrary, disparate in severity enforcement actions, in favor of development and industry, and against individuals and the spirit of the Acts.
In my county is a big filing cabinet of proof. County Commissioners have a goal to extend the tax base. That requires development and impacts. Therefore, the Commissioners opted to have a local environmental agency, kicking the state regulators out. People with the highest positions in the agency are those who do what the Commissoners want.
The proof of corruption is the number of permits on file whose mitigation requirements have never been met. If one presents these files to the department head they refuse to review anything that has already been approved. The county collects fees for employees to monitor mitigation sites which have never been constructed.
We have not heard of any permit investigation following the last oil spill in Louisiana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
I spoke out in favor of the moratorium because the disaster stunk of permit violations, no permits, or permits improperly awarded.
These important aspects of the truth never come out unless one goes to the public records. Burying the truth is what SETTLEMENTS are all about. All we hear about is the wonderful things that have been done to ameliorate murderous violations and public impacts which should never have happened.
Declare access to clean water an inalienable human right. There is an international movement happening. We the people buy out the private well owners. Operate our water common on a regional basis with public municipalities. Utilize new 21st century water science technology to produce more pure water.
End desalination technology being pushed by the fracking corps. Desal requires the most energy causing great environmental damage. Desal is the least healthy for human consumption. Ultra-filtration/Micro-filtration is the future. This technology produces the purest, naturally alkaline water which is the best for human consumption.
I have declared my candidacy for city council for the city of Santa Cruz. Our struggle is to boot out the desal plans and implement new conservation technology. bushforsccouncil.comxa.com
Down here in Texas we don't worry about water quality 'cause we're running out. Our local water source is only one third of full while our population still grows rapidly. At least I can still water my lawn even when the algae make the water non-potable.
Good luck with that. Most red states don't give a damn about "stinkin regulations".
In the 1990's most Central Valley towns in California dumped their treated sewage into either the Sacramento River or the San Joaquin River. The EPA was getting after us in Tracy, Califiornia for contributing too much Nitrogen to the rivers.
Some cities now are creating wetlands to filter the treated sewage then depositing it into drinking water reservoirs. Here is a story of one in Texas of all places.
http://news.msn.com/us/man-made-wetlands-turn-wastewater-into-tap-water
One Southern California city had built a series of lakes many years ago. Treated sewage is pumped into one of the higher lakes and the water makes its way down through two other lakes where it is purified. Last I heard, Los Angeles dumps their treated sewage into the ocean through a very long pipeline as far from shore as possible. When I lived in L.A. in the 1960's I used to swim in the ocean at Santa Monica. I used to see what looked like toilet paper floating in the water. That may have been before they started treating the sewage and they were just dumping raw sewage into the ocean. I know when I was a kid in San Francisco in the 1940's they didn't treat the sewage and just dumped it into the bay. I used to see prophylactics floating around near the outfall. Now they have modern sewage plants. In fact they named one the George W. Bush Sewage Treatment Plant.
Some cities pump the treated sewage deep into the ground which makes a lot of sense.
I just listen to Thom.
People are distracted, confused , working hard, worrying, just getting by..so millions are clueless to problems of our country / world. Students are not taught civics so how can they vote intelligently ? Corp media ran for huge profit Fox CNN MSNBC gives 1/2 the story & few facts They do almost NO fact finding follow up. I watch pbs news hour M-F 6 pm central . sometimes BBC / A.P. Frontline is excellent . Read USe logic & reason Its in very short supply . Online .. folks love to ' name call, smear , wildly speculate, exaggerate which accomplishes Nothing !
Other than air to breath there is nothing more important than clean water. We cannot expect corporations to police themselves. All they are interested in is profit and respecting the water supplies of others cuts into that profit. Poisoned water is other people's problems. We have to grab the bull by the horns when it comes to our vital natural resources and not take them for granted. It is an insane national disgrace that our government allows any fresh water supply to be endangered by anyone for any reason.
chuckle8 #18: ;-}
bobcox -- I think you mean to say enforce anti-trust not reinstate it.
Kend -- You should listen to Thom more. He is a great supporter of the market place.
Once again we are letting the 1% run our lives. Any company that has more than 10% of the market should be terminated or least blown into many pieces.
leighmf -- I thought packages were not 1st class mail?
I am NOT a con but in this case I am happy google reported this pedophile What if it were your kid ?
PAL -- As Jimmy Kimmel said last night, if he had to choose between changing all his passwords and giving away all his personal information, he might well chose the latter.
stecoop01 ~ Very well said! In fact, I think that is one of your best posts. Take a bow!
We can all agree that child pornography/molestation is a henious and unspeakable crime. But we must not throw away the rules of due process, equal protection, and rights of the accused just because we are more offended by one crime than by another. When emotion overrules reason, we become little more than vigilantes and lynch mobs - and that's when potentially innocent people get hurt, even killed.
It should be pointed out that Skillern's defense attorneys may try to get the charges dropped on the grounds that the evidence was illegally obtained. They probably won't succeed, but, than again, they just might; it depends on what other evidence there is against him.
On a different note, how stupid does one have to be to send child porn through e-mail? If I were to send child porn, or the launch codes for every nuclear missile on the planet, through e-mail, I would first encrypt the files using my own encryption program. (At some point, the receipiant would have received the decryption program). Skillern is definitly guilty of extreme stupidity.
There really is no such thing as privacy any more, unless you live deep underground with no contact with the rest of the world (privacy of the dead?). So, no matter what you're doing, you may just as well assume that somebody somewhere knows about it. And let's not forget all those Gods that are watching everything we do.
Today's joke:
Kitty porn is acceptable, kiddie porn is not.
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Kend ~ This is child pornography pedalers; not child molesters. A very big difference. Some might argue that pornography to one extent or another prevents or mitigates sex crimes. Some may argue the reverse. As exploitative and abusive as child porn is, it still takes a back seat to child molestation.
If you want to see pedophiles go unpunished you need look no further than the Roman Catholic Church. No one had to violate the Fourth Amendment to learn about the countless cases of priest pedophilia; yet, they all walked away free and clear with immunity, didn't they? Pedalers of child porn can be brought to justice without sacrificing everyone's Fourth Amendment rights too. Prisons are already full of them. Just check the National Sex Offenders List web site. These people were all caught within the law. Now there are over one thousand of them living in walking distance to my house alone. A fat lot of good their arrest did the rest of us.
http://www.registeredoffenderslist.org/
DAM -- The people who eat at fast food restaurants mostly do so to save time, I find it hard to imagine that those same people would spend the time to count calories.
On a personal level, in the past I took home an equal arm balance to measure the weight of my food. I purchased a Agriculture Handbook #8 and #2. All of this was in the 1960's. There were no calorie counts or anything else on the packages. Now I spent around $300 on a food scale and calorie counts are all over the place. The scale measures up to 13 pounds with 1 gram sensitivity. Even with all these resources it is still hard to keep an accurate count when cooking at home. The main problem I have is with more complex foods like spaghetti sauce and beef and noodles. When you cook those items it is hard to determine how much water has evaporated., When you pour off the juice it is hard to determine how much of it is fat and how much is water.
Thanks for the links.