I wonder why you think you know, whether he read the letters or not.

I guess there's hype - and then there's HYPE. That's the great thing about America - you get to choose your own hype. It is obvious which line of bull you have chosen! (Which poison actually)

What's not so great about America is partisan politicians using conflicting extremist bureaucratic, and biased court rulings, to stymie every possible industrial project imaginable - at every turn. And then they wonder why so many people are now unemployed and dependent on government, or why so many see no point in voting. Gee - I wonder why they might want us to be stupid and dependent on government, and subdued into not even voting - instead of independently governing ourselves - Hmmmm. It is one thing to pick your own poison - it is quite another, to have it picked for you by one environmentalist vigilante after another.


> . . .if California Deputy Attorney General Rose Fua has her way, freight trains may never run again on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Line.

It is also quite obvious, that you too believe their (and your) real agenda has nothing to do with environmental protection at all; but is rather to kill yet another potentially valuable infrastructure asset. But then, we all had that figured that out a long time ago - anyhow. Didn't we!

True to form; what you conveniently failed to mention, was that the NCRA is only a pawn here. They are subordinate to the California Legislature, which did not allocate sufficient funds for this cleanup. And until they do , it will not get done - court agreements or not, letters or no letters - period.

The fact is, that the state accepted the property from the SP "As Is" (really stupid of them), and created an agent of the state (NCRA) to direct it. Therefore, the State (that means public funds) are solely on the hook here. So if you really wanted a cleanup - all you "esquires" would lay off the harassing lawsuits, and call on your Assemblyman to appropriate the necessary funding. OOPS - that wouldn't serve your real agenda - would it!

It's too bad that real conservationists such as myself, cannot actually promote prudent and wise use of natural resources, through environmental regulation, without it then being egregiously abused and taken to destructive extremes - at every turn.

What is even worse, is that much of what passes nowadays for environmentalism, is actually based upon phony, politically motivated, junk science; which ends up harming the environment in the long run (e.g. ethanol, MTBE, mercury in now mandated CFLs, solar permit denials, etc, etc, etc). John Muir is surely rolling in his grave! A pox on all your houses!

What's really too bad, is that we can't simply have wise and prudent (and sustainable) use of natural resources; with many competitors in each field, all following the same "simple to obey" rules - all equal in practical reality before the law.

What an economic and ecological bonanza that would be! We'd leave the rest of the world in the dust! But instead, we will be eating the dust of others - until this extremism is put to an end!

OPB