You don’t have to work for a three letter agency to be an expert. I guarantee you that if they took the time to consult anyone remotely connected to ecological science they would have said no to hacking up the river bed without a proper survey and sampling.
I mean, the agency did drag its feet until the guy got pissed enough to do something irresponsible. Doesn’t excuse his actions, nor does it make him an expert either.
If he had an expert advising him on this course of action, cool. The articles don’t seem to mention it, and the articles prey on outrage, so saying “he even had an expert telling him to do so!” would have been worth a note.
So if you’re right, we’ve got two bunches of idiots; one negligent in their inaction, the other reckless in their action.
You might be right, but in the grand scehme of things, allowing sewage plants, that combine industrial waste with sewage, to dump in the rivers without consequence, while prosecuting this guy, rubs many of us the wrong way.
Only regular people get the shaft, not big money, that’s why this outrage is here.
For sure, the priorities are screwed. I initially just wanted to point out that it’s not “guy picks up trash, gets punished for it” but “guy assembles a group to dig up riverbed”. If we’re gonna be pissed (and we should be), let’s be pissed accurately and for the right reasons. Let’s be pissed that the EA is doing jack squat about problems. Let’s be pissed that so many agencies have been defanged and staffed with industrial bootlicks to the point of wilful incompetence.
Do you think the government environmental agency is trustworthy? You do realize the neoliberals are in bed with big money.
There is zero fucking chance of “experts” working in the public interest at the EA. 0%.
You don’t have to work for a three letter agency to be an expert. I guarantee you that if they took the time to consult anyone remotely connected to ecological science they would have said no to hacking up the river bed without a proper survey and sampling.
I mean, the agency did drag its feet until the guy got pissed enough to do something irresponsible. Doesn’t excuse his actions, nor does it make him an expert either.
If he had an expert advising him on this course of action, cool. The articles don’t seem to mention it, and the articles prey on outrage, so saying “he even had an expert telling him to do so!” would have been worth a note.
So if you’re right, we’ve got two bunches of idiots; one negligent in their inaction, the other reckless in their action.
You might be right, but in the grand scehme of things, allowing sewage plants, that combine industrial waste with sewage, to dump in the rivers without consequence, while prosecuting this guy, rubs many of us the wrong way.
Only regular people get the shaft, not big money, that’s why this outrage is here.
For sure, the priorities are screwed. I initially just wanted to point out that it’s not “guy picks up trash, gets punished for it” but “guy assembles a group to dig up riverbed”. If we’re gonna be pissed (and we should be), let’s be pissed accurately and for the right reasons. Let’s be pissed that the EA is doing jack squat about problems. Let’s be pissed that so many agencies have been defanged and staffed with industrial bootlicks to the point of wilful incompetence.
have you ever been to a wastewater treatment plant? the modern ones are really cool. only the fertilizer drying fields smell.