Gotta love this. Daily Tech
A year ago, I wrote a columndecrying the ruinous effects environmental legislation was having on large civic engineering projects in the U.S. In past decades, environmental activism has blocked countless dams, bridges, and factories, but today, a new milestone was reached. Citing global warming concerns, the California Attorney General’s Office today announced a plan to protect citizens by blocking construction of a major new industrial facility.
What is this new terror of pollution the state of California considers too deadly to build? A massive oil refinery? A vast strip mine? A toxic waste dump perhaps?
None of the above. It’s a bottling plant . . . and it’s bottling water.
The plant is sponsored by Nestle Waters North America, which has been trying for several years to get the project approved. Their original plan was to bottle a million gallons a day, but opposition from the Sierra Club forced the design to be scaled back to half that. Now the State Attorney General, Jerry Brown, says the plant may have serious effects on global warming, and he will sue to prevent construction from proceeding until those effects are fully evaluated.Â
I’ve mentioned the extreme danger of bottled water, how it is going to kill us all, because Mankind is just so damned evil, a few times. It is just so damned evil that government has to kill jobs. All in the name of Saving The Planet from anthropogenic global warming, which is, of course, mostly a pantload based on consensus, rather then science.
