Climate Change: Any Opinion's For Sale
Michael Moore said it best in Fahrenheit 9/11:
Corporate psychopaths would sell you the rope to hang them if they could make a dollar doing so.
It can be difficult sometimes not to despair when everyone and everything seems to have a price on it and everyone is for sale.
Why, one must ask once again, do the rest of us allow or even invite a monopoly by power mongers who then set about selling off the the entire planet, even as they already view it as a sinking boat?
This is way beyond simply soiling the nest.
This is sheer madness regardless of whether voted in, bought, or both, and these are the pirates left in charge of our fragile future, like a fox in the hen house.
Groundwater expert Allen conducted a study of Hornby's water table a few years back.
Allen was then hired by what later became, and still is considered by many to be, an extremely environmentally controversial massive development, namely Langford's Bear Mountain, located outside Victoria.
Touted as the "next Whistler", the sales pitch was not dissimilar to
"Missed out on Whistler? This time buy in while you still can!".
And everyone did just that.
They bought into the first rash (or is that trash?) of identical overpriced houses, at top dollar, listed from $800,000 to one million a piece.
Cheek by jowl high end tract housing looks out on completely fake gold turf which has altered every single natural contour for 500 acres beneath which sit two of only three major subsurface water sheds intended for the benefit of the entire CRD region.
No yards.
No privacy.
No pets.
No bike lanes.
No play areas.
No trees.
No landscape screening or sound barriers between houses.
These "dwellings" are so close together you could dry your undies on the shower rod next door.
Many of these high priced houses since then seem to have developed the "two cars plus one run down third car parked on the road" syndrome.
Presumably this is because those who bought in, in haste, must now rent out their hurriedly renovated illegal garage suites, perhaps to cover the massive mortgages they brought down on their own heads, authors of their own undoing.
At this stage, the whole thing is only a few years into the long term massively Big Plan and already Phase One appears to be becoming a shoddy, ghettoised has been.
Rather than an opportunity to implement a vision which might have set an environmental example, instead one drives through what for all the world looks like a treeless, high priced slipshod dump, a barren denatured place which now floods in winter, flushing tons of silt into nearby salmon bearing streams and which has been reduced to a loveless mud pile.
On top of this, the developers have since been at war with several native tribes, having completely destroyed a sacred underground native cave, which has, until now, survived for many tens of thousands of years. They have apparently also bulldozed native burial grounds. Several tribes were offered casinos as a buy off.
At least one is not being bought off, and since it must be a consensus-or-nothing deal, all seems to have ground to a stand still.
Irreconcilable differences.
Of course it may be possible that the dinosaurs themselves haven't a clue what they have really done. Certainly they have demonstrated nothing but open contempt for any and all protest by everyone opposed, and the number of people opposed is not small.
Sometime after assessing Hornby's ground water as part of a larger academic study, Allen chose to be willing to lend her hard earned good name to backing Bear Mountain's assurances that there was and would continue to be plenty of ground water available for a gargantuan 54 hole golf course.
These days, all over North America developers are ploughing under three golf courses to every one they build, because the golf courses have made the land too pricey not to develop the turf, so the owners of high priced and high status golf course houses will now end up looking out at other houses all around them.
Bear Mountain development is not even remotely completed as yet.
Yet all along several adjacent roads which share the very same wells which are also used to water Phase One of this gigantic golf course, at countless millions of gallons a day, residential owners on large adjoining acreages are already desperate because their own well water is going completely dry in early spring each year.
And only 18 of the projected 54 holes of a golf course which spans two different municipalities are up and running so far.
Bear Mountain appears to be using classic block busting tactics, and through expansionism they will likely buy these hapless rural folks out at bottom dollar, once they have no choice left but to sell valueless land to the developers.
To add to the disaster in the making, the original promise of limited residential golf course housing has gone from a total of a couple of thousand and has now escalated into zoning requests for many more thousands of homes, apparently by using a classic bait and switch sales pitch development manoeuvre to get councils on side.
As for the water expert at the centre of this controversy?
So much for the average uninformed community member being able to trust the experts and take them at their word, including the one who told Hornby that the status of our water was borderline.
What are we to believe now?
And why at all?
How can anyone trust those whose opinions are for sale, be it biologists, environmentalists, approving officers, forestry consultants, engineers, or top North American water experts when it seems that these days everyone can be bought and sold by lending their so called "good" name to faux scientific studies?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0%2C%2C329703480-117700%2C00.html
Corporate psychopaths would sell you the rope to hang them if they could make a dollar doing so.
It can be difficult sometimes not to despair when everyone and everything seems to have a price on it and everyone is for sale.
Why, one must ask once again, do the rest of us allow or even invite a monopoly by power mongers who then set about selling off the the entire planet, even as they already view it as a sinking boat?
This is way beyond simply soiling the nest.
This is sheer madness regardless of whether voted in, bought, or both, and these are the pirates left in charge of our fragile future, like a fox in the hen house.
Groundwater expert Allen conducted a study of Hornby's water table a few years back.
Allen was then hired by what later became, and still is considered by many to be, an extremely environmentally controversial massive development, namely Langford's Bear Mountain, located outside Victoria.
Touted as the "next Whistler", the sales pitch was not dissimilar to
"Missed out on Whistler? This time buy in while you still can!".
And everyone did just that.
They bought into the first rash (or is that trash?) of identical overpriced houses, at top dollar, listed from $800,000 to one million a piece.
Cheek by jowl high end tract housing looks out on completely fake gold turf which has altered every single natural contour for 500 acres beneath which sit two of only three major subsurface water sheds intended for the benefit of the entire CRD region.
No yards.
No privacy.
No pets.
No bike lanes.
No play areas.
No trees.
No landscape screening or sound barriers between houses.
These "dwellings" are so close together you could dry your undies on the shower rod next door.
Many of these high priced houses since then seem to have developed the "two cars plus one run down third car parked on the road" syndrome.
Presumably this is because those who bought in, in haste, must now rent out their hurriedly renovated illegal garage suites, perhaps to cover the massive mortgages they brought down on their own heads, authors of their own undoing.
At this stage, the whole thing is only a few years into the long term massively Big Plan and already Phase One appears to be becoming a shoddy, ghettoised has been.
Rather than an opportunity to implement a vision which might have set an environmental example, instead one drives through what for all the world looks like a treeless, high priced slipshod dump, a barren denatured place which now floods in winter, flushing tons of silt into nearby salmon bearing streams and which has been reduced to a loveless mud pile.
On top of this, the developers have since been at war with several native tribes, having completely destroyed a sacred underground native cave, which has, until now, survived for many tens of thousands of years. They have apparently also bulldozed native burial grounds. Several tribes were offered casinos as a buy off.
At least one is not being bought off, and since it must be a consensus-or-nothing deal, all seems to have ground to a stand still.
Irreconcilable differences.
Of course it may be possible that the dinosaurs themselves haven't a clue what they have really done. Certainly they have demonstrated nothing but open contempt for any and all protest by everyone opposed, and the number of people opposed is not small.
Sometime after assessing Hornby's ground water as part of a larger academic study, Allen chose to be willing to lend her hard earned good name to backing Bear Mountain's assurances that there was and would continue to be plenty of ground water available for a gargantuan 54 hole golf course.
These days, all over North America developers are ploughing under three golf courses to every one they build, because the golf courses have made the land too pricey not to develop the turf, so the owners of high priced and high status golf course houses will now end up looking out at other houses all around them.
Bear Mountain development is not even remotely completed as yet.
Yet all along several adjacent roads which share the very same wells which are also used to water Phase One of this gigantic golf course, at countless millions of gallons a day, residential owners on large adjoining acreages are already desperate because their own well water is going completely dry in early spring each year.
And only 18 of the projected 54 holes of a golf course which spans two different municipalities are up and running so far.
Bear Mountain appears to be using classic block busting tactics, and through expansionism they will likely buy these hapless rural folks out at bottom dollar, once they have no choice left but to sell valueless land to the developers.
To add to the disaster in the making, the original promise of limited residential golf course housing has gone from a total of a couple of thousand and has now escalated into zoning requests for many more thousands of homes, apparently by using a classic bait and switch sales pitch development manoeuvre to get councils on side.
As for the water expert at the centre of this controversy?
So much for the average uninformed community member being able to trust the experts and take them at their word, including the one who told Hornby that the status of our water was borderline.
What are we to believe now?
And why at all?
How can anyone trust those whose opinions are for sale, be it biologists, environmentalists, approving officers, forestry consultants, engineers, or top North American water experts when it seems that these days everyone can be bought and sold by lending their so called "good" name to faux scientific studies?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0%2C%2C329703480-117700%2C00.html
posted by Moxie Molly at 12:58 pm
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