When it comes to Wisconsin waters, the tag line off an old song is 'danger, heartbreak dead ahead.'
There's no way to minimize the environmental and legal disaster being imposed on Wisconsin and its publicly-owned waters by conservative donors and corporately-manipulated Republicans who occupy the Governor's Office, Legislative majorities in both chambers, the Office of Attorney General, all relevant stage agency management positions and a 5-2 majority on an openly-conflicted, giddly-greedy State Supreme Court.
Despite alarms raised, Wisconsin under Walker's 'chamber of commerce mentality' governance is:
* Approving a rush of high-capacity well permits even in areas with known groundwater shortages;
* Closing in on making these high-volume groundwater pumping permits permanent for their private owners without ongoing reviews of the downstream or cumulative impacts;
* Continually bending bend law and policy in favor of the big water users and even polluters who abuse the terms of their easy-street permits;
* Letting big corporate users take keep the public's water in direct violation of Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution, which has long-declared that:
There's no way to minimize the environmental and legal disaster being imposed on Wisconsin and its publicly-owned waters by conservative donors and corporately-manipulated Republicans who occupy the Governor's Office, Legislative majorities in both chambers, the Office of Attorney General, all relevant stage agency management positions and a 5-2 majority on an openly-conflicted, giddly-greedy State Supreme Court.
Despite alarms raised, Wisconsin under Walker's 'chamber of commerce mentality' governance is:
* Approving a rush of high-capacity well permits even in areas with known groundwater shortages;
* Closing in on making these high-volume groundwater pumping permits permanent for their private owners without ongoing reviews of the downstream or cumulative impacts;
* Continually bending bend law and policy in favor of the big water users and even polluters who abuse the terms of their easy-street permits;
* Letting big corporate users take keep the public's water in direct violation of Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution, which has long-declared that:
Wisconsin's Waters Belong to EveryoneNo wonder the way Wisconsin's environmental legacy is being hijacked is seen as the model for the Trump administration's commandeering of the US EPA, the Department of the Interior, and other science-based public agencies and managers of public resources.