rssHiaasen: GOP attacks on EPA are calls for petro dollars
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In an opinion piece published Sunday in The Miami Herald, Carl Hiaasen says that recent GOP attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency “ignore the problem” and that claims that the agency is a “job killer” are attempts to get campaign donations from petroleum and coal conglomerates. #
Conservatives have certainly come out hard against the EPA in recent months. Hiaasen cites a speech by presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, who recently told an Iowa crowd: “I guarantee you the EPA will have doors locked and lights turned off, and they will only be about conservation. It will be a new day and a new sheriff in Washington, D.C.” But Bachmann’s claims, contends Hiaasen, are less worrisome that those of Rick Perry, the current governor of Texas, who is widely considered to be a GOP frontrunner. #
From Hiaasen’s piece: #
Like Bachmann, Perry refuses to accept that global warming is real. He launched a lawsuit to stop the EPA from enacting rules to limit greenhouse gasses from oil refineries, power plants and other industrial sources. #
Perry likes to whine that “EPA regulations are killing jobs all across America,” a statement that draws more cheers in his native state than in the rest of the country. In fact, polls show that a large majority of Americans are worried about air and water pollution, and hold a positive view of the EPA. #
Nothing kills jobs like an environmental catastrophe, as the Gulf Coast gravely experienced during (and after) the BP oil spill last year. The true cost of that accident to the economies of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida is probably incalculable, although surely many billions of dollars were lost. #
The cleanup wasn’t perfect, but it’s absurd to think that BP would have worked faster or more efficiently if the Obama administration and the EPA hadn’t been leaning on the company, both publicly and behind closed doors. #
According to Hiaasen, the hostility to the EPA can be attributed to money. “The petroleum and coal conglomerates are huge GOP donors, and they’d love to have a president who would gut the EPA,” he writes. “Second, it’s about politics. To win Republican primaries — the theory goes — a candidate must fire up the Wingnut Right. The easiest way to do that is to brainlessly bash whatever government does.” #
Perhaps Hiaasen’s most important point, though, is that the attacks on the EPA are based on an idea that the agency’s regulations cost money and kill jobs. But the fact that pollution costs money and kill jobs goes largely ignored. In Florida, where tourism, fishing and water-based recreation make up such an important portion of the state’s economic sector, the lack of environmental regulation may hinder, rather than help, economic growth. #
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Comment posted August 27, 2011 @ 8:36 pm
I have never liked the term global warming. Back in the eighties it was global cooling and the threat of a new mini ice age. Lately I have been hearing about how we need to reduce CO2 which is what plants need to survive just as we need the oxygen they produce. That self serving, bloated lizard Gore the W***e certainly seems to thinks so and so does everyone who agrees with him. I guess when you have no morals and ethics and are a sociopath any snake oil will do as long as it makes you lots of bucks. Oh Al…. invented any Internets lately?
I guess that would also be in line with the UN and the Bilderbergers or whatever name they go by today to reduce global population by 85% as of 2025. The Satanist Bill Gates certainly thinks so.
Is the planet’s weather changing? Yes it is changing and the planet makes adjustments to counterbalance our affect and the universe’s affect on it. Climate change is an amalgamation of several factors not just the current flavor of the day that the lizards want to hop on and make a killing off of. Scientists who fudge or withhold data to suit the political agenda need to be held to account. Of course the threat of losing your grant money is a big factor too. It’s certainly disconcerting when some research scientist who’s working to find a cure for this human ailment or that is making 35K while the Senior Hedge Fund Manager takes home a bonus of three million.
The fact of the matter is we don’t need fossil fuels. The Tar Sands Project has had over a hundred spills and other accidents since its inception. It has had fifteen this year alone and we haven’t seen the effects on the environment as of yet. Now they want to run a pipeline from Alberta to Texas? Ole T Boone must be dancing on air. I control the oil and I control the water and no one gets it without my say so; I therefore must be a god at the least.
The Ohio spill which occurred after the Gulf still has not been properly cleaned up. Workers have been told to be silent or deliberate disappearance or some other catastrophe might befall you. SOP if you talk to the people who worked cleaning up the Gulf Spill or those poor people living in the 9th Parish that they seem so desperate to rid themselves of. The land is valuable but the people aren’t. The Gulf hasn’t been cleaned up and maybe if the proper safety procedures had been adhered to and practiced the Gulf spill might not have happened. Of course there were ample warning signs that competent rig workers brought to Management’s attention but were ignored because of schedule and loss of profit. Then again the Oil companies have been raping Louisiana since the Kingfish’s days and before.
We actually don’t need coal; natural gas or oil. The technology to convert universal, standard scalar wave energy has been around since 1931 as has the cure for cancer but that’s another story. The scalar conversion technology that would allow us to power our cities; transportation and energy grids that generate our hydro; have been withheld since Tesla’s patron J.P. Morgan found out he couldn’t put a tap on it and charge people exorbitant rates. The technology still exists but is controlled by the 1% who control 90% of the world’s wealth and they will not release it until all of us “eaters” have been reduced to acceptable levels; and the very last dollar has been squeezed out of the planet. Yes Mildred, the planetary weather system changes. It does so in response to many factors of which we are one.
Of course what is never really talked about is the affect of such global projects like the HAARP centres and their affect on weather and the global seismic configuration; or the increased poisoning of our atmosphere through chemtrails which contain Arsenic, Aerosol, Barium, Depleted Uranium, high levels of Mercury, Aluminum, and several other toxic chemicals. What is not talked about is the affect that fracking has not only on the atmosphere and the aquifers but on the tectonic matrix as well [negative harmonics].
Of course the planet is capable of making changes which will in turn affect the weather and us. It just seems lately that between fracking; oil drilling and these fallen angels playing a HAARP they shouldn’t be playing are all overlooked but major contributing factors. All of this contributes to how the planet adapts which in turn affects the weather we experience.
Scalar wave energy is emissionless; free and environmentally friendly. With scalar wave energy we wouldn’t be disturbing the planetary matrix; poisoning our air and water and we would be able to count the constellations in the sky from the center of a big city like LA. We also wouldn’t be in thrall to OPEC or those others who hold us hostage through energy. Let the EPA do its job and eradicate these sociopathic scoundrels whose god is Mammon and whose king is Profit.
Michael Kirkby
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