Study: Chesapeake Cleanup Would Bring $22B To Region
The Chesapeake Bay region would reap an additional $22.5 billion a year from improved hurricane protection, crab and fish production and climate stability if the Obama administration’s contested plan to clean up the watershed proceeds, an environmental group says.
The assessment released Monday is based on a peer-reviewed analysis of the economic benefits to the entities — six states and the District of Columbia — charged with reducing pollution into the nation’s largest estuary.
It comes as the Environmental Protection Agency is defending its cleanup plan in federal court against a challenge from farmers and 21 attorneys general who say the pollution limits are unreasonably costly and an unjustified power grab by the federal government.
Dredging the holding area behind the damn should do the trick and I think that is the responsibility of Exelon, not the taxpayer. Spending $22.5 billion is more pork belly so the government can pretend to be creating when the government is just wasting taxpayer dollars.
Very pretty words. Such a lovely story, and you tell it so well, with such enthusiasm! Nothing here about dredging the upriver of the Connowingo, which is killing half of the Bay, and threatening the other half! Just pay more salaries to "Save The Bay"! Gosh, I'm just creaming to give you idiots more money!
Here we go again , let's just do it over and over and over. When will they get it right ? 500 billion into clean-up 499 billion of that paid to the government workers to find out what needs to be done.
Nothing but air, slightly warmed, in this article, or "plan". Nothing about any physical method, activity, or action to be taken. Nothing about Conowingo, dredging, filter areas, ANYTHING concrete! But yet they know exactly how much it will cost, and at the end of the year, they will come back with their studies and the usual C- to D grade and ask for more billions to Save the Bay even harder!
Sad thing is, they will get the money, and the Bay will suffer as well as all the victims of EPA regulations...
Who comes up with these ridiculous projections? Since it can't be proven one way or the other they get a pass on it.
ReplyDeleteDredging the holding area behind the damn should do the trick and I think that is the responsibility of Exelon, not the taxpayer. Spending $22.5 billion is more pork belly so the government can pretend to be creating when the government is just wasting taxpayer dollars.
ReplyDeletestupidity abounds. Save 22B$ by taxing the residents 22 Trillion$ and pissing it away. Govt control is the primary object.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty words. Such a lovely story, and you tell it so well, with such enthusiasm! Nothing here about dredging the upriver of the Connowingo, which is killing half of the Bay, and threatening the other half! Just pay more salaries to "Save The Bay"! Gosh, I'm just creaming to give you idiots more money!
ReplyDeleteConowingo, conowingo, conowingo, conowingo, conowingo, conowingo...
ReplyDeleteWhat is really a tragedy is that there is little to no interest in cleaning anything up unless a profit can be made.
ReplyDeleteJust by the act of cleaning it up would benefit and 'profit' everyone GLOBALLY.
Here we go again , let's just do it over and over and over.
ReplyDeleteWhen will they get it right ?
500 billion into clean-up 499 billion of that paid to the government workers to find out what needs to be done.
Nothing but air, slightly warmed, in this article, or "plan". Nothing about any physical method, activity, or action to be taken. Nothing about Conowingo, dredging, filter areas, ANYTHING concrete! But yet they know exactly how much it will cost, and at the end of the year, they will come back with their studies and the usual C- to D grade and ask for more billions to Save the Bay even harder!
ReplyDeleteSad thing is, they will get the money, and the Bay will suffer as well as all the victims of EPA regulations...
And nothing will be done that "saves the Bay"...
At least half will be "lost" or put in certain peoples pockets. The rest will go to signs promoting what they never did.
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