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>From my blog today. When will it every stop?<br>
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<td>[California Greening] Offshore drilling wins another round</td>
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<td>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:22:01 -0800 (PST)</td>
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<td>Wes <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wrolley@charter.net"><wrolley@charter.net></a></td>
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Thanks to an <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/12/18628499.php">alert</a>
from Sacramento Progressive Activist, Dan Bacher, I learned just how
far the drill-baby-drill oil lobby will go to advance their cause,
especially as it relates to offshore drilling along California's coast.
<blockquote>The Board of Directors of the Western States Petroleum
Association (WSPA) on October 16 announced that Catherine Reheis-Boyd,
chair of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Blue
Ribbon Task Force, will assume the role of President of the oil and
natural gas industry trade association January 1, 2010.</blockquote>
That is just what we don't need, an oil industry lobbyist developing
marine life protection guidelines. And the tone-deaf, NY based national
media continue to refer to Schwarzenegger as a "green governor." He is
about as green as the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Austria.svg">Austrian
flag</a>. <br>
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It is time that we find some creative ways of expressing our opinion.
My co-blogger Alex has long been asking asking "<a
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href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/13/17328951.php">Where
is the outrage?</a>." It seems that the progressives have quietly
swallowed the hemlock and the outrage has moved to the teabaggers. How
have we allowed this to happen? Perhaps we have forgotten the
principles that Charlenet Spretnak and Fritjof Capra outline in <i><a
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href="http://www.charlenespretnak.com/GreenPolitics/index.html">Green
Politics</a></i>. <br>
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There is only one world and one nature. It is all we have to live in.
We destroy it searching for some golden fleece, or the Ponzi dream of
perpetual growth. If the time for change has come, the make sure it is
really change. Challenge Schwarzenegger and his oil industry friends.
Point out that it makes no good sense to try and control fossil fuel
driven climate change while helping the oil industry spoil what good we
have left in our natural ecology. <br>
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Posted By Wes to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Greening</a> at 11/14/2009 11:22:00 AM <br>
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"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente
Wes Rolley
17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.refpub.com/">http://www.refpub.com/</a> -- Tel: 408.778.3024</pre>
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