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Environmentalist California gov seeks exemption from environmental regs for high speed rail project
Topic Started: Jun 3 2012, 08:27 PM (223 Views)
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http://michellemalkin.com/2012/06/03/environmentalist-governor-rail/

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This is one of those “pass the popcorn” kind of stories: A Governor who never met an environmental regulation he didn’t like can’t get his pet project built unless he’s able to disable regulatory traps he’s spent his life helping to set.


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How come waiving regulations to create jobs is only a priority when the government wants to built something? At least Brown is being forced to admit that government regs are job killers.

As California’s Governor, Jerry Brown is trying to get around environmental lawsuits. As California’s Attorney General, Jerry Brown spent a good deal of time filing environmental lawsuits.

Ronald Reagan signed the California Environmental Quality Act into law in 1970 (it’s since been amended like crazy). Maybe The Gipper knew that someday it might save some serious money by protecting taxpayers from hypocritical “environmentalist” politicians and their boondoggles.

If Brown wants to waive regulations, let it be so the private sector can do some job creating.
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That should keep it rolling around from court to court. Sorta fits Barry's strategy; divide and conquer. We'll be reading about groups of green groups attacking other green groups.
Edited by kbp, Jun 3 2012, 08:41 PM.
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One of the problems the HSR Authority is facing is getting the rights to cut through properties. That takes EIRs.

Who is being affected?

Farmers!

It is payback time folks. Those azzhats never though Farmers could hold up approval because it is spiting their farms in half and having dire effects on their farming.

So what does Jerry & the Moonbeams dish up as a solution. Waiving environmental lawsuits.

Never trust a Progressive er Marxist!
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Gov. Brown wants to bar bullet train injunctions

Gov. Jerry Brown is trying to keep possible environmental challenges from derailing California's high-speed train project.

The Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/L4tzZs) says Brown's office on Monday began circulating proposed legislation that would prevent courts from issuing work-stopping injunctions in many environmental lawsuits.

The proposal would affect suits brought by Merced County and Central Valley farm groups who argue the multibillion-dollar project would cause potential harm to agricultural areas.

The Times says Brown's office sent the proposal to major environmental groups, hoping to win their support.

However, Bruce Reznik of the Planning Conservation League says there's a lot of skepticism, even among groups that support the rail project.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/06/05/state/n060426D36.DTL


The HSR is in real trouble in California. More & more citizens are turning against it & Brown knows it is in deep trouble. A recent study showed that taking the HSR Bullet Train will take longer & cost more than flying between SF & LA. That wasn't what was promise to California voters. This while California suffers from it economic woes.

However old agendas die hard. I suggest part of this is to sell that "Green Energy" in low term contracts to lock in those higher rates for HSR to save the "Green Economy" in California.

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Jun 5 2012, 11:09 AM
Gov. Brown wants to bar bullet train injunctions

Gov. Jerry Brown is trying to keep possible environmental challenges from derailing California's high-speed train project.

The Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/L4tzZs) says Brown's office on Monday began circulating proposed legislation that would prevent courts from issuing work-stopping injunctions in many environmental lawsuits.

The proposal would affect suits brought by Merced County and Central Valley farm groups who argue the multibillion-dollar project would cause potential harm to agricultural areas.

The Times says Brown's office sent the proposal to major environmental groups, hoping to win their support.

However, Bruce Reznik of the Planning Conservation League says there's a lot of skepticism, even among groups that support the rail project.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/06/05/state/n060426D36.DTL


The HSR is in real trouble in California. More & more citizens are turning against it & Brown knows it is in deep trouble. A recent study showed that taking the HSR Bullet Train will take longer & cost more than flying between SF & LA. That wasn't what was promise to California voters. This while California suffers from it economic woes.

However old agendas die hard. I suggest part of this is to sell that "Green Energy" in low term contracts to lock in those higher rates for HSR to save the "Green Economy" in California.

So Brown wants an exception to the law ...to the RIGHTS he has so proudly fought for over the years?

Can they also tack on a waiver to Obamacare for the state while they're working on this?

:roflmao:
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Buyers' remorse for California's 'bullet train to nowhere'

California voters are experiencing buyers' remorse over a $68.4 billion (£44.4 billion) high speed rail project which critics say risks becoming a "bullet train to nowhere."

...A new poll shows almost three fifths would oppose the bullet train and halt public borrowing if given another chance to vote.

Almost seven in 10 said that, if the train ever does run between Los Angeles and San Francisco, they would "never or hardly ever" use it....snipped

..Last autumn the state-run California High-Speed Rail Authority, which is overseeing it, disclosed the cost had more than doubled to $98.5 billion with a finish date of 2033.

After an outcry $30 billion was shaved off that estimate, but only by reducing the speed of the trains and using sections of existing slow track.

The authority is also facing legal challenges from those whose land the track will have to cross.

Last week agricultural groups filed a major environmental lawsuit asking for a preliminary injunction to block construction.

Unless building begins shortly there is also a risk of losing federal funds. The federal government has set a deadline of September 2017 for finishing the first section of track.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9310511/Buyers-remorse-for-Californias-bullet-train-to-nowhere.html


Reduce the speed of the High Speed Rail?

"reducing the speed of the trains"

Pretty much says it all.
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