Other issues are dodgier. For instance, Alabama and Georgia have been
holding talks on allocating the flow of rivers that originate in Georgia and
run through Alabama (the Coosa/Tallapoosa/Alabama River system). Georgia
wants to impound more of the flow for a variety of silly reasons, while
Alabama doesn't want to see decreased flow. Talks just collapsed; this means
it goes to a federal court, who threw it back to the states to settle 5
years ago. Important environmental issues are rarely local to a given state,
even the bigger states.
Activities that may benefit one area can easily adversely affect someone
else (i.e., burning coal in a power plant benefits Kentucky but causes acid
deposition in NY and New England). How do you solve this to everyone's
satisfaction?
And I don't even want to touch the issues of navigable waters, i.e. what are
legitimate uses in tidal or major fresh water ways. On an e-list we'd
quickly get into "does so, does not" in a pointless way.
--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville "Constitution Village" Alabama
>No offense Jay, but would you prefer a radical veiwpoint of the other
>extreme, like vice-president Al Gore? I believe if George W. Bush were
>elected, he would let state agencies handle environmental issues, as it
>should be. I don't think that it is the Presidents place to dictate ( pun
>intended) what all agencies should do, especially those at State levels.
>Whats good for Virginia isn't neccasarily good for Wisconsin, and whats
>good
>for Wisconsin isn't necassarily good for Washington. Let's say for the
>sake
>of arguement that the new President was from the great lakes area. His
>veiws on Salmon would reflect ( in most cases) what salmon are here, sport
>fish and alewife control. Would you want this guy telling Washington state
>whats good for its salmon? The reliance of Federal government to take
>care of state issues is a hot topic now, for reasons that are easily read
>about in publications. I have not heard what Bill Bradley or John McCains
>veiws on this subject are, but have heard Bill Bradleys are in line with Al
>Gores.
>Ray
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