Sunday, June 03, 2012

Jerry Brown moves to protect high-speed rail project from environmental lawsuits - Transportation - The Sacramento Bee

The Brown administration, laboring to start building California's high-speed rail project by early next year, is preparing a proposal to insulate the project from environmental lawsuits, limiting circumstances in which a court may block construction of the line.

The proposal, criticized by environmentalists as it emerged on Friday, would protect the $68 billion project from court-ordered injunctions that might otherwise be issued under the California Environmental Quality Act.

[Worstall again] Yes, climate change is a problem and yes, we do have to do something: but in Britain, we've done it already – Telegraph Blogs

The answer is, quite simply, a revenue-neutral carbon tax.

...There really is a Climate Change Conspiracy, of course, something we'll come to next time.

Guardian Goes “Full Stupid” on Arctic Ice, Contradicts Itself. | hauntingthelibrary

In fact, as the NSIDC points out, the extent of Arctic sea ice is very close to the average for the last three decades, not down by 75% as The Guardian’s environment reporter seems to be confused about

1 comment:

papertiger said...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new poll finds California voters are experiencing buyers' remorse over a proposed $68 billion bullet train project, as the number of lawsuits against the rail system grows.

Fifty-five percent of voters want to see the high-speed rail bond issue that was approved in 2008 back on the ballot, and 59 percent say they would now vote against it, according to the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times survey (lat.ms/N9tTcm) published Saturday.


Heh.