Oh Those Fracking Wars
Posted by TruthFreedom1 11 years, 8 months ago to Politics
Should the EPA intervene and protect the health and property rights of the people. They are setting a precedent.
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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2...
My friend purchased 300 acres of ground that was once a part of a gravel pit that had been abandoned decades before the letters EPA were ever put together. To gain access to the majority of his 300 acres there was a low lying gravel road that passed through the edge of the old pit and was not entirely on his ground, but he had a permanent easement to maintain and use it to access his property - for the past 30 years.
Now he needs to haul several loads of gravel in to repair the road and would like to build the road up a foot in order to improve drainage. But because a treehugger neighbor decides that this would cause increased drying of the bottom of the old pit, he calls the EPA and tells them that my friend is endangering a "wetland". No matter how many drainage culverts my friend offered to put in or even if he didn't build up the road at all, he was banned from even fixing the holes in the existing road. The EPA idiots have proclaimed that even the road is now a wetland since water sits in the holes and on the lowest points of the road during heavy rainy seasons.
Don't give them anymore power than they already have.
Thank you. A voice of reason. I have a thick skin.
This article does suggest that the government can't even accomplish what it's specifically meant to do. We need to find better solutions to protecting property rights than a government that taxes people at the barrel of a gun.
I like your thinking Truth, welcome to the gulch I hope you don't discourage easily.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2...
This article discusses some of the perceived problems with fracking including that it is hard to get sound information from the secretive corporations who engage in the activity.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2...
I'm not looking for a fight... Just opinion and some debate. And here is a link to a book review http://www.polisci.ccsu.edu/trieb/InfluG...