OUR OPINION: Don’t fence EPA out of Oil Patch
October 1, 2012 at 4:30 pm in Grand Forks Herald
North Dakota’s congressional delegation should make sure the proposed Empower States Act doesn’t cut the EPA too far out of the picture. Continue Reading
OUR OPINION: Don’t fence EPA out of Oil Patch
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Those wo opose the EPA probably aren’t old enough to remember just how bad things got before there were regulations and the EPA to enforce them. We damn well do need the EPA to provide oversight. It’s little wonder that big oil is trying to get them out of the way….And it’s little wonder that the guy who probably would have been against this when he was govenor is now backing it…..Sure do miss the common sense Hoevan we once had
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In the early years, the EPA was well-focused and very much needed.
The current EPA is corrupt and power-mad. It is full of itself. It is giving environ-mental regulation a huge dose of “MENTAL”. We need the EPA, but we need the EPA to have proper direction, and it DOES NOT currently.
The primary purpose of the Empower States Act will be to put the states in charge of energy exploration and development. The primary purpose of THAT is to allow corporations to bribe and lie to “little” politicians instead of “big” bureaucrats. The overall result will be disaster at the hands of the oil companies.
I didn’t think much of Hoeven when he was governor. I try to not think of him at all, now. It’s just sad.
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In the early years, the EPA was well-focused and very much needed.
The current EPA is corrupt and power-mad. It is full of itself. It is giving environ-mental regulation a huge dose of “MENTAL”. We need the EPA, but we need the EPA to have proper direction, and it DOES NOT currently.
True, but the EPA has become an agency out of control of the people and in the control of radical environmentalists. Giving states a bigger voice will put more power in reasonable peoples hands and out of radicals hands.
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The real faux radicals are those that can’t leave behind their denial about the effect fossil fuels are having on the atmosphere.
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Radical in this case is pretty subjective. Basically anything that will cost business would be considered “Radical” by the right. But we’ve seen what happens too many times if there’s not a strong oversight. I dobn’t know much about this bill, but I have the impression that if it goes through giving oversight to individual states….That some states like ours could very well lose big time once the big business such as oil buys influence. One reason it works well as a federal program is because it’s difficult to corrupt……By the way….This was one of Nixons programs….You know…That Liberal from many years ago…..Well at least by the GOP’s standards today
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Of course big business has been buying influence in GF & ND for yrs. A certain regional power company use to pay the $250,000/yr. gambling bill for a certain mayor in order to get rates raised when they went to the city council. Not a rumor, I witnessed it. I assume this was SOP for many places in ND corrupted by big business.
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“A certain regional power company use to pay the $250,000/yr. gambling bill for a certain mayor in order to get rates raised when they went to the city council. ”
Spearman: DETAILS please. I’d just LOVE to hear more about what you’re claiming.
We don’t often agree on this site. You’ve got my attention now, though.
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Spearman if what you claim is true, you are did the country a great disservice by not reporting the event to authorities. If fact by not doing so you became part of the corruption you witness.
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