[CRNMC] need of a letter to the editor to the Willits Weekly

[Patricia Norris]

Thanks Karina and thanks Ed.

Ed, would you consider it plagiarism if I sent your letter, with a few 
modifications as suggested by Shannon (order of items) and Peter (last 
few words) as though it was mine?
It is a very good letter, I would like to see it published here in 
Willits (two newspapers).

Patricia

> I'm going to work on it, but  it'll take me some time to 
> craft.  And more than one letter won't hurt.
> Karina
>
> On Jun 7, 2014, at 2:31 PM, edward Oberweiser wrote:
>
>> Dear folks,
>>
>> Someone wrote a very inaccurate and misleading letter to the editor 
>> for the Willits Weekly. Shannon wrote an email to everyone asking 
>> someone to answer it and not let it stand.
>>
>> I wrote one and it was rejected by the publication because they don't 
>> accept LTEs from outside the third district.
>>
>> Please someone who lives in the third district answer this fallacious 
>> LTE.
>>
>> I enclose a copy of the LTE below.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ed Oberweiser
>>
>> Community Rights and Wrongs
>> To the Editor:
>> In last week's paper, Peter Norris wrote about the
>> Community Rights Network of Mendocino County
>> (CRNMC) and its signature gathering campaign. CRNMC
>> has proposed a local ordinance to ban fracking and create
>> a "Community Bill of Rights," bestowing legal rights on
>> "[a]ll residents, natural communities and ecosystems in
>> Mendocino County ... to water, air and soil that is untainted
>> by toxins, carcinogens, particulates, nucleotides, and
>> hydrocarbons introduced into the environment through
>> unconventional extraction of hydrocarbons."
>>
>> I think we can agree that it is good to have clean water,
>> soil and air. I am a lifelong moderate environmentalist,
>> and I support reasonable environmental regulations.
>>
>> But almost all human activity has some effect on the natural
>> environment. I believe environmental concerns must be
>> balanced against other human needs -- for homes, heat,
>> fuel, roads, jobs, computers and food, for instance.
>>
>> I am wary of environmental campaigns that seek to elevate
>> the "rights" of trees, plants and wildlife over the rights of
>> humans. We humans are part of nature, and we have a
>> right to live, too.
>>
>> I am very wary of the proposed Community Rights ordinance for 
>> Mendocino County because it would allow any resident of the county to 
>> sue any government or private entity for perceived environmental 
>> impacts on any "natural
>> community" -- which includes any "wildlife, flora, fauna, soil
>> and air-dwelling and aquatic organisms...." The proposed
>> ordinance would also provide for recovery of expert and
>> attorneys fees and litigation costs by any resident who
>> sues on behalf of a tree or a frog harmed by someone
>>
>> The proposed
>> ordinance would also provide for recovery of expert and
>> attorneys fees and litigation costs by any resident who
>> sues on behalf of a tree or a frog harmed by someone.
>>
>> I am afraid of fracking. I have read enough about it to know
>> it seems horribly dangerous to the environment, to wildlife
>> and to humans. I would sign a petition to enact an anti-
>> fracking ordinance in Mendocino County. But I am also
>> afraid of overzealous environmental activists who might
>> use the proposed ordinance to disrupt local life and cost us
>> all a whole lot of money.
>>
>> Before signing CRNMC's petition, I urge everyone to read
>> the proposed ordinance on their website (www.crnmc.org 
>> <http://www.crnmc.org/>)
>> and try to imagine the worst possible effects if even one
>> unreasonable resident of Mendocino County wishes to
>> sue the county or private parties for some small perceived
>> harm to nature
>>
>>
>> Randi Covin, Brooktrails
>>
>>
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