ENVS 2256 Lecture 38: Professor Plater Lecture
19 May 2018
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Tennessee, many dams, 68 of them in river system!•
mountains in the east, water is falling down!•
TVA wanted to dam in about 100 yards on either side!•
river was very fertile, clean and clear!•
with lime in water, it is alkali !◦
16 ft deep soil, very fertile!•
oldest area of human habitation !•
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dam is too small for flood control or electricity!•
going to condemn 300 family farms!•
buying land involuntarily!◦
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boeing just wanted to build the last dam!•
administrative agencies just want to dam it up !•
rolling stone gathers momentum !◦
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if you don't come up with positive cost benefit!•
without dam, nothing would develop economically!◦
telco would not detract form any enjoyed area!◦
if hypothetical economic benefit could take place, it would!◦
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pork committee -> gives out taxpayer money !•
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farmers said it was crazy!•
argument: under NEPA, need an impact statement !◦
look at real costs, real benefits, and cost alternatives!◦
cost, benefits, alternatives!◦
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NEPA!
policy allows for more interpretation!•
put in the fullest extent possible!•
limits this!◦
used to say people have a "right" to a healthful environment !•
person who didn't get this right, they would have standing to sue!◦
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took out the word finding!•
if theres evidence that shows !◦
detailed statement is garbage!•
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environmental impact statement was created accidentally by politicians !•
token symbolism!◦
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people took agencies to court!•
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turn the river into the lake, this is the only way that tennessee is going to get the jobs !•
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procedural -> EIS is simply procedural, accurately depict bad things and do them!•
substantive -> prohibition !•
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