Posted on 03/22/2016 1:04:51 PM PDT by Twotone
A Linn County man who farms near Albany could face big daily water-pollution fines from the federal Environmental Protection Agency because he has failed to remove or get permits for a massive rock and earthen dike he built along the North Santiam River.
William Case, 77, could be fined $37,500 a day for violations to the federal Clean Water Act, according to a lawsuit the EPA filed last month in U.S. District Court in Eugene.
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EPA must be destroyed. Abolish the agency, and repeal most of the underlying legislation.
Where’s that river the EPA destroyed just recently?
I’m going to be meeting Mr. Case tomorrow. A mutual friend is introducing us. I want to encourage him to come to some local political meetings, so he can share his story with our candidates. We need to push all of our future elected officials to start fighting for the rights of average Americans & strip these agencies of their powers. This kind of cr*p has gone on too long!
The question is- would they have granted to permits? Is the dike a GOOD THING?
THEN JUST GRANT THEM~!!!
But to make him tear it down and put it back up again would be STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID
Maybe a fine for not filing the permits FIRST... but even that could be waived if expediency was necessary.
Bureaucracy works at a snails pace- and his farm would have been washed downstream by the time they got around to it.
“Where’s that river the EPA destroyed just recently?”
Colorado and New Mexico!
In the Sea of Cortez by now......................
Good. We can’t count on the President, however passionate we may be about out preferred candidate, to solve this sort of problem. It was created by Congress; Congress must solve it. We need to make clear to our congressmen and senators (and candidates) that repealing bad laws is a Good Thing, and we expect them to do it.
There once was a man named Leroy, he was killed fighting “the beast” called Babylon the Great, and the Mother of Harlots, commonly known as the US government. If the above is not true, it is as close as we can get and live to tell about it.
What do we do when it happens? We say wise things like, “he should have bowed and scraped while mouthing words of comfort to that beast” or “He should have taken his case to the courts, which would only cost him millions of dollars and decades of his life What are the forces aligned against him? The beast which has TRILLIONS, and transcends time.
People say “Why fight it?” It is the source of all that is good and just in this land?
Alas, we are all living in the dystopian future predicted in great fictional works, and WE LOVE IT.
A bureaucracy , any bureaucracy is designed to perpetuate itself ,
and then they design more bureaus to confuse the masses ..
ad infinitum
There is no earthy reason for an 8000 employee Federal EPA. Each state has it’s own environmental regulations in place. ABOLISH it!
A bureaucracy , any bureaucracy is designed to perpetuate itself ,
and then they design more bureaus to confuse the masses ..
ad infinitum
Oh, yes there is. The reason is to impose tyranny on a formerly free people. Where I come from, that's considered a bad reason.
Abolish the EPA.
If we do something wrong, the EPA comes down on us like a hammer, yet if the EPA does something wrong, nothing happens, they are untouchable and above the law.
Didn’t we fight a revolution to stop that kind of thing?
Ah yes, the 4th branch of gov’t, the Regulatory Branch.
here’s the pathetic thing. The guy did this to protect both the river and his land from erosion which was filling the river with silt. I suspect the guy is going to lose his farm over this.
“Case said he did that to stop the river from cutting into farm fields he owns along the river. The river in previous years had washed away a 100-foot-by-800-foot section of the land, and he did not want to see more go downstream, he said.
Case hauled in at least 40 tractor-trailer loads of rock that was dropped next to the river, he said. He said each truckload held 20 to 25 cubic yards , so the dumped rock totals about 800 to 1,000 cubic yards of material. He then had dirt from the field added to fortify the dike.
Case contends that by adding the rock, he is actually improving the quality of the water in the North Santiam by stopping erosion.”
Psalm 69
1
Save me, O God,
for the floodwaters are up to my neck.
2
Deeper and deeper I sink into the mire;
I can’t find a foothold.
I am in deep water,
and the floods overwhelm me.
3
I am exhausted from crying for help;
my throat is parched.
My eyes are swollen with weeping,
waiting for my God to help me.
4
Those who hate me without cause
outnumber the hairs on my head.
Many enemies try to destroy me with lies,
demanding that I give back what I didn’t steal.
Clearly a case of a pissed off bureaucrat that thinks he/she has power. Looks like what the guy did was needed and improved the area.
The 8,000 employees have a reason, they need to justify their existence.
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