Posted on 07/12/2011 11:23:00 AM PDT by SatinDoll
“sent me a letter saying they were going to reclaim the entire plat, including dad’s parcel of land, and designate it as a wildlife refuge. They offered pennies on the dollar.”
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Don’t sell out — fight it as long as you can. President Palin may put a stop to all this and you can get justice. Don’t sign anything.
Sacramento Valley Refuges — http://www.fws.gov/sacramentovalleyrefuges/
These parcels have been in my family now for four generations. We’re not selling. We will fight any attempt at condemnation. There is natural gas out there, and we know it.
Thanks SatinDoll.
There is a bill before congress right now, proposed by Miller and Issa of California, to allow state EPA rules to be used instead of Federal rules when the state rules are as strict as the EPA rules. This can only mean that they want state rules that are stricter than EPA rules.
I don’t understand why two Republicans would be proposing this. I think the number is HR 2043.
I’m not sure i understand what you mean when you say state EPA rules. I think you mean state environmental agencies’ rules?
I think that I would have to agree with Miller and Issa on this bill though, because of the simple fact that decisions such as these should lie with individual states. Anything less would be a federal usurpation of state sovereignty. While federal law is rule of the land, a state should have the right to make that rule even stronger should they so wish... Even if i don’t agree with the outcome in situations such as the one that you are speaking of, state’s rights should be protected.
While it might be true in some cases, the Supreme Court has ruled that in matter of shipping, the states cannot interfere, putting tighter restrictions on than the feds require. The ruling was called, Intertanko. It involved WA State and oil tankers.
The danger with the new pilot program is that the leftist environmentalists will use it as precedent to take over other areas beyond surface transportation.
The fact is that the state rules will only apply if they are at least as stringent as the EPA rules. If the states want looser rules, the federal rules will apply.
The danger is mostly for people in blue states where the left control the environmental agencies.
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