Monthly Archives: November 2014

NJ Spotlight Asks: Are We Serious About Water Quality?

The Answer Is A resounding NO! Corporate power blocks effective government regulation – It’s “Them” not “Us” Longtime professional planner and water resource manager Dan Van Abs – previously in leadership positions with the Passaic River Coalition, NJ DEP, the … Continue reading

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Cooling Tower Deja Vu

The Original Sin of The Green Weenies? “The past is never dead, it’s not even past” (Wm. Faulkner) [Updated with End Note] Tom Johnson at NJ Spotlight has a story today on the long running Salem nuclear power plant cooling … Continue reading

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KIG Still Spinning Misleading Tales As New Facts Emerge On Open Space Disaster

State Parks Must Now Compete With Open Space, et al for Far Smaller Pot of Money Scott Fallon at the Bergen Record wrote a story today about how projects must now compete for a smaller pot of open space funding, … Continue reading

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What’s Up With The Baldpate Mountain Reforestation Project?

 Destroying A Lovely Park Meadow In Pursuit of Stewardship Familiar Faces, Familiar Failures [Important update below] I originally wrote about this issue in an October 18, 2010 post “Can’t See the Meadow for the Trees”, in which I laid out … Continue reading

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Stewardship – For Whom? Public Parks or Private Lands?

“Stewardship” Becomes The Charter School of the Environmental Movement Saturday was a glorious fall day, so the dog and I set out for our favorite walks in the woods along the Delaware River: Bulls Island, D&R Canal State Park, Washington … Continue reading

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