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Why Is Walmart Paying Chris Christie's Pals?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/18/why-is-walmart-paying-chris-christie-s-pals.html#url=/articles/2014/02/18/why-is-walmart-paying-chris-christie-s-pals.htmlThe big-box retailer wanted to build in a protected New Jersey forest. The Chris Christie administration said no. Then the governor's friends got involved.It may be hard to imagine a worse place to build a Walmart Super Store than a currently empty corner of the town of Toms River, New Jersey.
For starters, the idyllic town near the Jersey Shore already has a Walmart. And the site where a second one has been proposed is both in a part of the Pine Barrens—a protected swath of forest in the southern part of the State—and abutting the protected waterways of Barnegat Bay. It is also home to the Northern Pine Snake, which is on the state’s list of endangered species.
“They needed another Walmart like they needed another toxic well,” said Jeff Tittel, executive director of the Sierra Club of New Jersey.
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“This thing was dead. Next thing you know, Wolff & Samson get involved and it gets approved,” said Jeff Tittel of the Sierra Club. “It was the first time that the state had allowed the direct taking of endangered species for development, moving their dens rather than building around them.”
“You try to find some other habitat for the snakes and they all will die,” Tittel added.
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Move the snakes??? So they can build a Wal Mart???
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