Big Brother Environmentalism Coming After Us
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
The answer to all environmental problems is more big government, according to those who are now in control of Congress and the White House. Their solutions will focus on command/control and taxation to “encourage” their desired results. Those results are also geared to harming our nation’s economy while giving advantages to non-American producers.
In the case of their efforts to punish those who use carbon-based energy, taxes and command/control government regulations in the form of cap-and-trade will be key in protecting us from the politically-determined threat from the theory known as global warming.
We also can fully expect that anti-livestock advocates and their agenda will be included in the mix with taxes assigned to livestock operations on the basis on the natural biological gases emitted into the atmosphere from the digestive processes of the domesticated animals. (We can only suspect that wildlife, also emitting the same gases, are “natural” so are therefore not a problem.)
Activities are also coming together for the U.S. Senate to move forward with their proposal to reverse the Supreme Court ruling which has limited big government’s program of controlling wetlands, land uses and overriding state’s rights over water management. To reverse the ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on how the federal government can rightfully regulate, the legislative game-plan is to use S 787, the Clean Water Restoration Act.
Pushing Back Needs To Start Now:
Our elected representatives in the U.S. House and the Senate need to hear very bluntly that these approaches for inflicting more government regulation will not be accepted without response. From a Nevada perspective and the importance of state authority over water resource decisions, the over-extension of federal intrusion is especially inappropriate. Our representatives need to understand that their votes will be carefully monitored in regard to the rewrite of the Clean Water Act and they are expected to make a meaningful and effective defense of Nevada’s authority over water management decisions. Given the stature of their current positions (which we will likely hear a lot about during the campaign for re-election) should prevent negative consequences.
Likewise, there should be no-excuses point of view when it comes to protecting our economy from further government-caused harm from climate change.
It will be likely in this regard that we’ll be told how Nevada’s resource base of alternative energy sources (geothermal, sun, possibly even wind) make the anti-carbon-based energy a legitimate pursuit. Nothing could or should be farther from the truth. Advancement of alternative energy resources can be accomplished without penalties assessed on carbon-based energy use or those who rely on these sources.
Our messages to Washington, D.C. must be as strong as those who wish to destroy our country’s economic base and we should not mince our contentions that this is the ultimate agenda of those who promote penalties and taxation methods with unwarranted big government edicts.
The answer to all environmental problems is more big government, according to those who are now in control of Congress and the White House. Their solutions will focus on command/control and taxation to “encourage” their desired results. Those results are also geared to harming our nation’s economy while giving advantages to non-American producers.
In the case of their efforts to punish those who use carbon-based energy, taxes and command/control government regulations in the form of cap-and-trade will be key in protecting us from the politically-determined threat from the theory known as global warming.
We also can fully expect that anti-livestock advocates and their agenda will be included in the mix with taxes assigned to livestock operations on the basis on the natural biological gases emitted into the atmosphere from the digestive processes of the domesticated animals. (We can only suspect that wildlife, also emitting the same gases, are “natural” so are therefore not a problem.)
Activities are also coming together for the U.S. Senate to move forward with their proposal to reverse the Supreme Court ruling which has limited big government’s program of controlling wetlands, land uses and overriding state’s rights over water management. To reverse the ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on how the federal government can rightfully regulate, the legislative game-plan is to use S 787, the Clean Water Restoration Act.
Pushing Back Needs To Start Now:
Our elected representatives in the U.S. House and the Senate need to hear very bluntly that these approaches for inflicting more government regulation will not be accepted without response. From a Nevada perspective and the importance of state authority over water resource decisions, the over-extension of federal intrusion is especially inappropriate. Our representatives need to understand that their votes will be carefully monitored in regard to the rewrite of the Clean Water Act and they are expected to make a meaningful and effective defense of Nevada’s authority over water management decisions. Given the stature of their current positions (which we will likely hear a lot about during the campaign for re-election) should prevent negative consequences.
Likewise, there should be no-excuses point of view when it comes to protecting our economy from further government-caused harm from climate change.
It will be likely in this regard that we’ll be told how Nevada’s resource base of alternative energy sources (geothermal, sun, possibly even wind) make the anti-carbon-based energy a legitimate pursuit. Nothing could or should be farther from the truth. Advancement of alternative energy resources can be accomplished without penalties assessed on carbon-based energy use or those who rely on these sources.
Our messages to Washington, D.C. must be as strong as those who wish to destroy our country’s economic base and we should not mince our contentions that this is the ultimate agenda of those who promote penalties and taxation methods with unwarranted big government edicts.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 4/25/2009 3:09 PM 
Categories: U.S. Congress
Tags: Command and Control Regulations Congress Global Warming Clean Water Act Climate Change
Categories: U.S. Congress
Tags: Command and Control Regulations Congress Global Warming Clean Water Act Climate Change
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