Posted on 07/09/2008 6:54:39 AM PDT by bobsunshine
Behold the Taunton River in Fall River, Massachusetts, pictured nearby. Congressman Barney Frank thinks your family would love to visit this scenic wilderness. Among its attractions are the fuel-storage tanks along the eastern shore. The container ships and piers are always a hit with the children looking for a place to romp.
This could be America's next "wild and scenic river," if Mr. Frank gets his way. Last month the powerful Congressman pushed a bill through the House Natural Resources Committee that would give the Taunton River that designation under federal law. The bill could come up for a vote on the House floor soon. If you're beginning to sense that there may be more going on here than love of nature, keep reading...
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Mr. Frank's real agenda can be spied on the right-hand shore in this picture. This is the proposed site of a terminal for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG). The terminal would be located right about where those five white storage tanks are at the top of the picture – hardly untrammeled wilderness. The Congressman, whose district includes part of Fall River and the Taunton River, has long opposed the LNG port.
Mr. Frank claims that the wild and scenic designation has nothing to do with the terminal. But six months before the terminal was first proposed in 2002, Mr. Frank had advocated dredging this not so pristine landscape to preserve its viability as an industrial port.....
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It also has many dark spots for gay men to “meet”.
I canoed that river a few years ago - surprised by how many turtles were in it but mostly it was pretty gross
After looking at the picture, if he gets away with this, he should be changed with criminal conspiracy and the rest of Congress with criminal neglect.
“Behold the Taunton River in Fall River, Assachewsitts, pictured nearby. Congressman Barney Frank
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Barney has outdone himself on this one!
Right on both counts! Nancy Pelosi's "porkless" congress is showing again.......Barney has been in office far too long and the people of Massachusetts should be red in the face for coddling such a person all these years. Don't spend your tourist $$s in that state...the federal tax money for such personal projects come from your federal taxes.
Is it any wonder that congress's rating is at a single digit.....9%?
Isn’t the battleship USS Massachusetts parked right behind the right-most cantelever [green] section of that bridge?
Fall River needs jobs, not wilderness areas:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/fall-river/news/x1867427647/Citys-unemployment-rate-dips
As of May 20, 2008-—
“The city’s unemployment rate stood at 7.8 percent in April, still twice the state 3.9 percent average, but definite good news after the 11.2 percent in January, or the 10 percent registered in February and March.”
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