This information comes from DeSmog and is disheartening. Corruption is showing its ugly head in our world now from FIFA, the Olympic Committee, our water governing boards Florida and now this.
Dissimulation to cover up shameful inaction of not doing the right thing. Anything for money.
Just as with water issues in Florida, the polluters jump into the fray pretending to help solve the problem they cause, not by attacking the source(they, themselves) but by offering money for new technology to abate the symptoms of the pollution they need to stop.
Just as the DEP and the SRWMD and other water boards pretend to be working to solve the very problems they themselves cause by by giving pumping permits and by allowing unmonitored excessive amounts of fertilizer to be used.
It’s all the same thing which comes down to allowing money to rule and the planet to suffer.
Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum.
jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org
– A river is like a life: once taken,
it cannot be brought back © Jim Tatum
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