Jeb hates the wetlands as well..

[back2basics909]

Do the people of Florida know what he is doing to their protection? They should question this now.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/07/31/State/Wetlands_could_get_ea.shtml

"Florida's builders and developers have launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to make it easier to wipe out wetlands, using their political clout to get help from state legislators and members of Congress.

A developers' lobbyist helped write a state bill that would make it easier to get a permit to destroy wetlands of 10 acres or smaller. When it passed, the builders persuaded 15 members of Congress to send Gov. Jeb Bush a letter urging him to sign it. He did."

[back2basics909]

1. More..

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/22/State/Easing_use_of_wetland.shtml

Gov. Jeb Bush signed a bill Tuesday that would make it easier for developers to destroy wetlands. The governor conceded the law has problems but said he hopes those can be fixed next year.

The law seeks to shift responsibility for wetlands of 10 acres or less from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the state. A development lobbyist said that would affect about half the permits the corps issues each year.

*The corps must find that destroying the wetlands is in the public interest and will have no significant environmental impact.*

The corps in Florida issues more permits to destroy wetlands than in any other state. Between 1999 and 2003, it approved more than 12,000 permits and rejected one. The state approved each project.

The St. Petersburg Times found that since 1990 about 84,000 acres of Florida's wetlands have been replaced by urban development at a time when *federal policy required no net loss of wetlands*.


Developers complain the corps takes too long to approve permits, sometimes taking more than a year.

*Corps officials blame the delays on too much work and not enough staff.*

State law gives the DEP and the water districts 90 days to review a permit or it is automatically issued. State records show the DEP permits in 2003 were issued in an average of 44 days.

Rep. Trudi Williams, R-Fort Myers, proposed shifting to the state the corps' power to issue permits for wetlands of 10 acres or less. Williams, an engineer whose clients includes such big developers as WCI Communities, said the idea is "something that made a lot of sense for Florida."

Jim Garner, a lobbyist for WCI and the Florida Association of Community Developers, estimated that half of all wetlands permits involve 10 acres or less, though the corps could not confirm that.

[blindpig]

2. and I hate developers

and of course the entire bu$h clan.

The greed of these scum is unbelievable, they've californicated the most beautiful state in the union(I LIKE gators and venomous snakes!). Not satisfied, every minute refugia of life must be sacrificed to Molloch. Did I mention that I hate their guts?

I swear when I read stuff like this I want to puke. It makes me consider the worthiness of the human species in a dim light.Like the Romans they make a desolation and call it victory. Would that Skink did live.

[MisterP]

3. it's Hiaasen time