LookieNoNookie
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ORIGINAL: HunterCA Really, in the last such permit I obtained about six years ago I had the three star general in charge of the US Army Corp of Engineers and the local Congressmen visit the federal employee and ask her to process the permit in the second year of the application and she said no. So we waited a third year. Really? You're claiming to have gotten a Lieutenant General to personally walk a permit request through and still couldn't get it done? The commander of the entire US Army Corps of Engineers? (the only 3 star general in the Corps of Engineers). Full of shit much? Unfortunately, thanks to saving the rare pilot gnat which only lives on a 3/4 acre parcel in one location on Earth, even a Brigadier General can't rubber stamp projects. And if someone spilled a can of Pepsi on it just prior to the inspection by some of these environmentalists, you'll have a SEPA that runs 900 pages to prove your project won't kill whales downstream in Argentina. Times have changed. Projects I could hire a consultant on in 1988, that took 10 weeks, now require 10 agencies, all of which have to sign off on their little fiefdom first and takes 5 years. It all gets done in the end, I have to build a park somewhere (or put a protective fence around the gnats with signs on the fence every 30 feet so school children can learn the vital importance of the gnat) but instead of costing 30 grand, it costs 2.5 million. It just ends up costing the end user (tenants) more. It doesn't actually change the final result (much). While what you say is true, what it does do is teach developers to hire a biologist before they buy property. Then after they buy the property they farm it for a year or two until there are no more gnats. Then when they make a development application it goes much more smoothly. So all the rabid environmentalists do is help destroy the environment. Well, you're aware, no doubt, of that specific story (crazy shit....literally (forgive me Thompson)a 3/4 acre site.....nowhere else on the planet), near San Diego if I recall....and as the development ensued, the gnats left BUT....the fence remains. Maybe they'll come back.
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