Career employee to DENR Sec. Skvarla: Take this job and shove it. (Western NC water wars)

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Found this in the The Independent

Posted by Bob Geary

A friend forwarded this to me. It's the resignation of an unhappy — to put it mildly — career official in the Asheville regional office of Division of Water Quality in the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)....

Between your inappropriate mission statement, the dismantling of the Division of Water Quality, and HB74 (along with a few other gems from this session's NCGA), I see no reason to continue here - because my own mission - to assist all citizens and protect those that don't have a voice, would be compromised....

When you pushed our reasonable, right-leaning WQ Director out, I knew we were in trouble. When you guys (and they are mostly guys...) pushed out a very thoughtful and judicial Environmental Management Commission chair, I knew we were moving into a sand pit that we weren't going to dig out of easily. When you, along with your "great Tom Reeder", decided to cleave off the stormwater programs and move it to Land Resources, who have never been trained for such..nor do they much care about WQ, I knew it was time to leave....

Full article and resignation letter. http://www.indyweek.com/citizen/archives/2013/09/02/career-employee-to-denr-sec-skvarla-take-this-job-and-shove-it

This is what we are facing in NC. The resigner's name has been withheld.