I have placed a call to my contact at the BLM. After talking things over
with him, I will determine if further investigation is warranted, including
a chat with Pruett, esquire at Save the Salt.
Ms. Terry may be jumping the gun, but then again she may be forewarning us
in order that we may be forearmed.
When negotiating with the BLM on local and Federal levels for Breedlove, I
was blindsided by a environmental group that insisted the sonic boom we
might make would cause earthquakes and fractures in the earth. Nuts? Yes, of
course, but that lie item and few other jolly bits was enough to convince a
judge that we should be stopped. The court injunction was eventually lifted
but not before a lengthy, brow sweating series of talks were completed.
My point is, had we paid more attention UP FRONT, made more of an effort to
assure and demonstrate our intentions to be good custodians of trust, then
these folks would have never been taken a seriously as they were.
I faced the same attitude with motorheads in the early 80's when the smog
laws first reared its filthy head. Had SEMA and its brilliant tech and
Washington, D.C. based legal staff not rallied behind me to produce a
damning statement of fact in response to the EPA's fiction, you can bet your
sweet rumps that repairing your own vehicle would be mostly illegal today.
We eventually got most of the buff books on board, but man o man what
frustrating struggle to get the grease monkeys to get their heads out from
under the hood.
SEMA was also the instrumental force that broke the back of the scrappage
debacle as well as the OBD (on-board diagnostics) voodoo that the EPA was
foisting on the factories. Had THAT gotten a foothold, the entire street
performance aftermarket would have tanked.
Stand by, I am looking into this.
"LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth
LandSpeed Productions
Telling stories with words and pictures
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Kerr <dkveuro@pop.flash.net>
To: ardunbill@webtv.net <ardunbill@webtv.net>; John Beckett
<landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; land-speed@autox.team.net
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT:Possible Salt Flats Issue
>Hi folk......
>Don't wanna be Chicken Little, but below is the sort of response the
>logging companies had, also see what happened to the Spotted Owl
>territory, the big Redwood tree issue, the Gun Control lobby in
>Australia and UK. MTBE problems, the Home Workers Liability deal with
>OSHA. Fishing Quotas, Dolfin/Jack/Fin fish restrictions.
>Expanded anti whaling groups. And don't forget the vehicle scrappage by
>the EPA to rid us of old and often classic vehicles to off set factory
>emmissions.. See the last few pages in the Hemming's News.These guy's
>have a lot of momentum and experience. Are you next.?
>..........................DK.
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>ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:
>>
>> John and Group, just as sure as you're born this is just another
>> non-issue, foolish agitation from somebody about some hobgoblin. Sure,
>> there are environmental groups, sure they can hire lawyers to go
>> confront the BLM about this, that or the other. Sure, some of them are
>> fanatics and crackpots, and sure, they sometimes create a nuisance.
>>
>> The fact is, the environment has to be used by people, and, the
>> environment has to be protected in a REASONABLE fashion from more abuse
>> than it can handle. But, I am quite certain that speed trials people,
>> to most of whom the Salt Flats is a hallowed place, create no adverse
>> impact on them by running with care a few times a year, and I'm quite
>> certain the BLM feels this way about it.
>>
>> Anybody can complain about anything, and anybody can sue anybody about
>> anything, but the Law, the Courts, and Congress set great store by
>> precedent and tradition. The racers have been at Bonneville over 50
>> years, do not hurt it, and I am quite certain that politically, and
>> under the Law, this activity will be conducted there in 50 years and 100
>> years, the same as it is today.
>>
>> I see no reason for speed trials people to get all upset and ride off in
>> all directions by a little spate of agitation like this. In all
>> likelihood it will disappear without a trace like a pebble tossed into a
>> pond. Cheers from ArdunBill (who has his toe in the water of local
>> politics) in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA
>
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