clean drinking water(can this be Maine's future)

[luckyleftyme2]

I know i've posted in here before about large corporations ripping off our water;I know
I don't have the airwaves to contradict the absurd notion that any business has the right to enter our state buddy up to an existing water company that is grandfathered and proceed
to rape the natural resources.
No I DON'T TRUST a think tank that is politically funded. give me access to a computer and i'm sure I can skew a topic to give you the answer you want. hell he's already proved that
with tabor(NOT).THANK GOD FOR COMMON SENSE!
This is what I have seen and I don't like it.I'll use the paper industry for an example.
st.croix paper company in the town of bailleyville was bought out by georgia Pacific.this was a multinational industry taking over maine based company. they made large improvements at the mill but their real interest was the forest land. they put in a stud mill,basically made 2x4's.
then they started cutting on the american and Canadian side,buying lots and raw wood.
do you remember they shut down rte#1 in princeton(native americans. they close rte#6 in topsfield area because the trucks stove the roads up and made them unsafe.
well today the paper industry is a joke,the reason really is because they can't get the raw material(wood) cheap enough any more because the density of mature wood is to scattered.
people I grew up with and their children are out of work or soon to be. not Georgia Pacific they just moved on to the next forest they can destroy.
now people tried to get laws passed to make it costly to ship raw wood (being used to make flake board and plywood)to another state taking our natural resources and creating work
for their people.
we had our scot fish,ray Richardson's back then. they helped to kill this. now we have a state in money trouble,not just from the paper industry,wood products industry,and all the equipment,trucks,chainsaws etc.and this is just one of several industries i've seen go by the wayside because of stupidity!
now back to the water problem we have starting: I have summered in the sebago-harrison area for over 50 years.
this weeks bridgton paper has to articles concerning aquifers in this area.one in fryburg,one in harrison.
the GIST OF IT IS YOU PLAY BY THEIR RULES(BUSINESS OR) OR THEY WILL TRUCK IT TO ANOTHER STATE AND BOTTLE IT.
MY SUGGESTION IS YOU PUT A TAX OF A DOLLAR A GALLON FOR EVERY TANKER TRUCK FULL THAT IS GOING TO ANOTHER STATE TO BE BOTTLED. THAT EVERY BOTTLE THAT IS PUT UP IN MAINE YOU PUT A NATURAL RESOURCE TAX ON IT AT LEAST 1% OF ITS SALE VALUE. RIGHT NOW A ONE LITER BOTTLE OF
POLAND SPRING GOES FOR $1.60= $00.016 FOR THE STATE.MY GUESS IS THIS WOULD AMOUNT A GREAT INCOME FOR THE STATE!
NOW IF YOU THINK IN WAY THAT THIS WOULD STOP OR EVEN SLOW DOWN NESTLES OR ANY OTHER COMPANY FROM DOING BUSINESS HERE YOUR CRAZY.
BUT AT LEAST THE CITIZENS OF MAINE WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW FOR IT.
CHECK AND SEE HOW MANY AQUIFERS POLAND SPRING(NESTLES HAS DRAWN DOWN SO FAR IN THIS STATE! WAKE UP MAINERS!
PS READ THAT BRIDGTON PAPER IT HAS HAD SEVERAL ARTICLES ON THIS SUBJECT!

[Shorebound]

1. Natural resource tax

I've been wrestling with this idea for a while now, and it's been an evolving process. Lucky's approach has definite attractions, with the idea that a natural resource that is processed in Maine is taxed far less (or perhaps not at all) than a raw product exported elsewhere for processing. At first the water tax idea bothered me because it seemed too simplistic and too vulnerable to court challenges on the grounds that the same standards weren't being applied to other raw materials, such as trees and lobsters and blueberries. But if it's staged the way Lucky suggests, that might make it far more palatable.

Especially if the money went into a dedicated fund for environmental protection or land conservation, or was used to offset the personal income tax for lower income and middle class Mainers so it wouldn't affect our overall tax burden and give the right wing more ammo.

[luckyleftyme2]

2. CLEAN WATER IS GETTING RARE.

HAVE YOU BEEN TO FLORIDA,GEORGIA,TEXAS,ARKANSAS, LOUSIANNA OR MANY OTHER STATES THAT WHOLE
COUNTIES HAVE LITTLE OR NO DRINKABLE WATER UNLESS TREATED.
I MEAN IT WILL GAG YOU. SO LETS PROTECT OURS. I'M NOT AGAINST SELLING IT,BUT I AM AGAINST A GREEDY COMPANY THAT WILL DRAIN OR LOWER AN AQUIFER. IN OTHER WORDS EXCEED ITS ABILITY TO KEEP A MIMIMUM OUT PUT AND RECOVERY. AND THAT SHOULD NEVER BE MORE THAN 50% OF ITS RECHARGE ABILITY.
CLEAR CUTTING KILLED MAINE FOREST JOBS,FAST BUCK LEAVE THE STATE ARTISTS SWEET TALKED OUR
REPRESENTATIVES INTO ALLOWING IT.
RE-PLANT IN MOST INSTANCES IS A JOKE. TRY RIDING THE STUD MIIL ROAD-PULL OFF ON SOME OF OF THESE REPLANT AREAS,ITS BEEN 30YEARS PLUS FOR MANY- SCRUB BRUSH IS WHAT MOST OF THE RE-PLANT AMOUNTED TO -BUT IT SOLD PAPERS,LET A FEW WANNABEES STIR THE CHIT AND ALLOWED THE RAPE TO GO ON TILL IT WASN'T PROFITABLE.
YA CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT CLEAN WATER!THINK!
HEADED FOR CAMP,GONNA GIT THE STRESS LEVEL DOWN AND ENJOY SOME OF THAT CLEAN WATER!