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Re: IMPORTANT:Possible Salt Flats Issue

To: ardunbill@webtv.net, John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>,
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT:Possible Salt Flats Issue
From: Don Kerr <dkveuro@pop.flash.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:32:33 -0600
Hi folk......
Don't wanna be Chicken Little, but below is the sort of response the
logging companies had, also see what happened to the Spotted Owl
territory, the big Redwood tree issue, the Gun Control lobby in
Australia and UK. MTBE problems, the Home Workers Liability deal with
OSHA. Fishing Quotas, Dolfin/Jack/Fin fish restrictions.
Expanded anti whaling groups. And don't forget the vehicle scrappage by
the EPA to rid us of old and often classic vehicles to off set factory
emmissions.. See the last few pages in the Hemming's News.These guy's
have a lot of momentum and experience. Are you next.?
..........................DK.
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ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:
> 
> John and Group, just as sure as you're born this is just another
> non-issue, foolish agitation from somebody about some hobgoblin.  Sure,
> there are environmental groups, sure they can hire lawyers to go
> confront the BLM about this, that or the other.  Sure, some of them are
> fanatics and crackpots, and sure, they sometimes create a nuisance.
> 
> The fact is, the environment has to be used by people, and, the
> environment has to be protected in a REASONABLE fashion from more abuse
> than it can handle.  But, I am quite certain that speed trials people,
> to most of whom the Salt Flats is a hallowed place, create no adverse
> impact on them by running with care a few times a year, and I'm quite
> certain the BLM feels this way about it.
> 
> Anybody can complain about anything, and anybody can sue anybody about
> anything, but the Law, the Courts, and Congress set great store by
> precedent and tradition.  The racers have been at Bonneville over 50
> years, do not hurt it, and I am quite certain that politically, and
> under the Law, this activity will be conducted there in 50 years and 100
> years, the same as it is today.
> 
> I see no reason for speed trials people to get all upset and ride off in
> all directions by a little spate of agitation like this.  In all
> likelihood it will disappear without a trace like a pebble tossed into a
> pond.  Cheers from ArdunBill (who has his toe in the water of local
> politics) in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA

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