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Water
act wording at issue
Lobbyist
Don Parmeter of the American Property Coalition (APC) was in
“The issue here is
money, power and control,” Parmeter said. “This bill isn’t about
clean water, it’s about taking away private property rights.”
Parmeter, along with
Linda Runbeck, a former state senator from Circle Pines and the campaign
manager for Rod Grams, when he ran against Oberstar in 2006, are trying
to raise a grassroots defense against a bill they call the most
dangerous piece of legislation to residents of Minnesota.
“Local people need to
get involved because they are the ones who will suffer,” Parmeter
said.
The controversy over the
bill centers around removing the word “navigable” from the
definition of “waters of the
“He (Oberstar) asserts
his bill restores and clarifies the Clean Water Act, but that is a
serious misrepresentation,” she said.
John Schadl,
Communications Director for Oberstar, says the legislation is
straightforward enough for the public to decide from themselves. Schadl
has called comments from the APC mischaracterizations of the
legislation.
“The Congressman is not
interested in engaging them (APC) on a personal level like this,” he
said. “The bill is only 10 pages long. We invite the public to read it
for themselves.”
But Parmeter, who
characterizes himself as a recovering environmentalist, says
Oberstar’s bill is part of an environmental movement, which has become
a corporate entity more concerned with money than clean land, air and
water.
“This is a
smokescreen,” he said. “Corporate foundations need to wake up.”
The bill can be viewed in
its entirety by visiting the website of the Library of Congress at http://thomas.loc.gov/ and
searching for bill number 2421.
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Source: http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/2007/jun/29/water-act-wording-issue/