Quote of the Day: “It’s Better to Work Together Than End Up in Court”
Courtesy of Conium
W.A.D. Are you listening?
From Green Country Values blog:
“Arkansas and Missouri officials agreed Monday to meet annually to study ways to protect watersheds and aquifers that cross state lines, a pact both states said would help keep water fights out of the courtroom.
“It is not only important to set and enforce standards for your own waterways, but to also work with neighboring states so that the industries in your own state don’t go there, wreak havoc, and embarrass your state in the national news.” Read more…
If the press would get off their lazy behinds and do a minimal amount of reporting, they would see real law breaking, not the psuedo science being pushed to enrich W.A.D.s’ trial lawyer buddies.
FLASHBACK: The Means Justifies the Ends Mr. Attorney General?
Chickens, Pollution at Core of States’ Dispute
by Greg Allen
NPR Morning Edition, June 7, 2005 · Water monitors recently found in Arkansas creeks have state officials angry over what they call the clandestine monitoring of their chicken industry. The monitors were traced back to Oklahoma’s attorney general, who is threatening to sue the Arkansas chicken industry.
While the discovery of the water monitors was an embarrassment, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmonson and other officials are refusing to back off their contention that Arkansas must do more to police chicken suppliers within its borders. (Audio)
