Christie DEP Goes All Nixonian – A Hit Piece of the First Degree
Bergen Record reporter Jim O’Neill must be desperate and auditioning for the new McNews editors at the bought out Record.
Today, he got totally played by a cabal of Christie DEP hacks, NJ Audubon, and a notorious professional loggers’ lobbyist and wrote an incredibly ugly hit piece on NJ Conservation Foundation, see:
In my 35 year experience, I can’t recall DEP responding to complaints by a loggers’ lobbyist and NJ Audubon, and then doing press to drop a dime on and criticize NJ Conservation Foundation –
This is as ugly as it gets – and the Bergen Record goes along for the ride.
It must be payback for the State Parks defunding KIG story and followup editorial, both of which were highly critical of NJ Audubon.
Nixonian. Just more evidence that they know no shame.
I’ll be writing more on this in the near future, but for now I’m pressed for time at a local library, so here is my note to O’Neil
Jim – ask DEP and NJ Audubon and Mr. Kallesser the logger if DEP issued permits for the prior and proposed logging on Sparta Mountain and if they are seeking those permits under the current plan.(and if they support permits – specifically: stream encroachment, freshwater wetlands, soil conservation, Highlands (DEP and RMP), and local land use approvals.
The answer is no – here are the regulatory details and site specific facts if you are interested:
Environmental Damage Of DEP Sparta Mountain Logging Plan Largely Unregulated
You have been played and written an ugly hit piece of the first degree, when you should have been writing about the Sparta Mountain anti-logging protest hike on Saturday.
Wolfe