Critics Say California Law Hurts Effort to Add Jobs

[cpzilliacus]

N.Y. Times: Critics Say California Law Hurts Effort to Add Jobs

Environmentalists in this greenest of places call the California Environmental Quality Act the state's most powerful environmental protection, a model for the nation credited with preserving lush wetlands and keeping condominiums off the slopes of the Sierra Nevada.

But the landmark law passed in 1970 has also been increasingly abused, opening the door to lawsuits – sometimes brought by business competitors or for reasons unrelated to the environment – that, regardless of their merit, can delay even green development projects for years or sometimes kill them completely.

[NE2]

Critics say this thread belongs on Tea Party Nation or Green Bagger Village or somewhere where it's on topic.

[Stephane Dumas]

Might be a bit off-topic, but I spotted a interesting article
http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_3_oil.html

Then another big cloud to watch are the minucipal bankrupcies of San Bernadino, Stockton...

It won't be long before the song "Californian Dreamin" turn into "Californian nightmare".

[cpzilliacus]

Critics say this thread belongs on Tea Party Nation or Green Bagger Village or somewhere where it's on topic.

(0) On-topic (in the Off-Topic forum) since this law is used to obstruct and delay improvements to the transportation system in California;

(1) The New York Times is probably not the first choice of anyone stating they believe in the so-called Tea Party movement (though most Tea Party true believers consider anything done by Ronald Reagan to be touched by a deity, and this law was enacted while he was governor of California); and

(2) I personally dislike the so-called Tea Party movement about as much as I dislike radical green groups such as the Sierra Club.

[cpzilliacus]

Might be a bit off-topic, but I spotted a interesting article
http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_3_oil.html

Thanks - I think I read that article some time back, though I  have never understood that the California economy would stop without products refined from crude oil, yet drilling off of its coast is essentially illegal.

Then another big cloud to watch are the minucipal bankrupcies of San Bernadino, Stockton...

It won't be long before the song "Californian Dreamin" turn into "Californian nightmare".

Those bankruptcies are tied-in with the crash in housing values (and the subsequent crash in property values).

[Desert Man]

I truely wish for California to turn around, elect a new bunch of more qualified and well devoted planning committees...and to boost the state's ailing economy, because I hate to wanting to leave this state when it goes bankrupt which I hope never happens. I live in another part of the Palm Springs area with less problems and it's a fine place to raise a family, but the community I live in is in the same boat. My parents still live down here...and my wife is from Northern Cal. around San Mateo (originally from Missouri), so I'm a native-born Californian with hopes to keep its reputation of the "Golden State" alive.