Maine Gov. LePage (Profane Teabagger/Ignoramus): Loosen rules on environment

[jpak]

http://www.pressherald.com/news/lepage-loosen-dozens-of-rules-on-environment_2011-01-25.html

Gov. Paul LePage has proposed zoning 10 million acres of northern Maine for development, repealing laws that require manufacturers to take back recyclable goods for disposal and reversing a ban on the use of a chemical linked to cancer in children's products.

The proposals are among 36 sweeping changes to environmental laws that LePage sent to the Legislature's new Joint Select Committee on Regulatory Fairness and Reform. The panel began a series of statewide public hearings on regulatory reform Monday in Presque Isle.

LePage's submission ignited howls of protest from environmental groups, who had met with the governor in a forum Thursday to try to persuade him that environmental laws are good for the economy.

"We are shocked and stunned," said Lisa Pohlmann, incoming executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, one of the state's largest and oldest environmental advocacy groups.

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:puke:

I smell "Peoples Veto"

yup

[orwell]

1. What a shock...

...RW ideologue guts environmental regulation.

Who'd a thunk it?

[jpak]

2. It's worse than many feared - much of the northern part of the state will be transformed

from working multi-use forest with public access to gated kingdom-sized McMansionvilles plastered with No Trespassing signs.

All the idiots in northern Maine that voted for this buffoon will be locked out of land they hunted, fished, camped and snowmobiled for generations.

His business cronies will make out like the bandits they are.

yup

oh yeah - he's rabid pronuker too...

[pscot]

3. Ah, democracy

The voters get what they deserve.

[jpak]

5. Actually, LePage won with only 38% of the vote in a multi-candidate field.

Mandate it was not.

Luckily, we in Maine have a referendum process called "The Peoples Veto" to deal with shit like this.

yup!

[NNadir]

6. "Yup!" "Yup!"

How is it that there are Mainers who sound so much like "YUPpie" hicks?

Yup! Yup!

Guess what?

I only know one person from Maine actually, and he's a belching gas bag, but I'm sure there are many fine people in the State who, despite this, are serious and quite realistic and quite appalled in a realistic way.

On the other hand, there do seem to be some decidedly delusional types there, and reflecting on it, it's hardly surprising that they're lead by a Palin clone.

[jpak]

7. I know a sickfuck from New Jersey that claimed to have invented a molten salt breeder reactor

Oh, BTW - LePew is pronucular and anti-renewable

you would like him

yup!

[phantom power]

4. And that's what the housing crisis *really* taught us...

More McMansions!

:woohoo:

[NickB79]

8. Because there's huge numbers of jobs to be created by adding BPA back into plastics

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