No public input and no concerns whatsoever over possible oil
spills? It’s heaven living in such a perfect state.
The DNR decide it didn’t need have to listen to us:
jsonline: The public was "completely cut out of the process"
when the DNR decided not to conduct a complete environmental review, and
instead considered only an air permit.
What’s so unsettling about the DNR’s okay to triple the
capacity of tar sand crude through Wisconsin is a law that doesn’t consider
past environmental problems by the Enbridge Energy.
The increase would send more oil from Canada and North
Dakota across Wisconsin than the proposed Keystone XL pipeline linking western Canada to the Gulf
Coast. In July 2010, an Enbridge line ruptured in Michigan, sending 834,000
barrels of oil into the Kalamazoo River. The company also paid $1.1
million to settle claims by the Wisconsin DNR and the state Department of
Justice that the company violated environmental laws during the initial phase
of the pipeline project in 2007 and 2008. DNR officials also said state law
doesn't allow officials to use a company's past operating record when reviewing
environmental permits.
What a nice convenient law. Do people get these same legal benefits as companies?
Well, that Walker investment certainly paid off, it is the gift that keeps on giving!
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