On Jan. 31 the Associated Press released a story that should make everyone in CNY wake up in the middle of the night screaming.
So, let’s recap. We have a federal agency that sees no potential environmental harm from installing a 39-mile pipeline through mountainous pristine waterways, forest ecosystems, and private farmland. We have a gas company that tells landowners one thing and then does something entirely different behind their backs that will result in loss of property and environmental destruction. And we have the federal government in the form of the House of Representatives refusing to allow the press access to public business, and even going so far as to have a journalist arrested. In America this is happening!
The gas companies’ position is becoming increasingly transparent: do not get in our way because you will pay. One way or another, pipelines and drill pads and drill rigs and all the hideous ancillary paraphernalia and devastating ramifications that go hand in hand with this destructive industry shall soon be the new normal if the gas companies get their way.
I cannot think of a more obvious example of what is happening to what used to be known as American democracy.
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