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11icic Ul awrnauve, cnvironmentally conscious, projects are what I consider to be “progress.” Allowing up to 450,000 gallons of effluent with a “Limited” amount of pollutants, regulated by the private industry that built the plant, to flow into a previously pristine watershed is not a sign of progress. It is a sign of the status quo politics of “progress” that have led to a slow degradation of the natural resources we all share'.
The time has come to redefine “progress” in terms of ecological and, therefore, community sustainability. Part of this redefinition involves questioning the organizations our tax dollars support. Why does the Virginia Department of Water Quality choose to regulate the rate at which we destroy our natural resources?
It is obvious to me that the focus of the DF.Q is not to protect natural resources, but to serve as a means for developers to continue to use public resources for their own immediate short term goals. In fact, an anonymous source at the DEQ has said that she/he has been told that his/her job is to issue permits, "above all else.”
1 was lucky enough to grow up in the mountains of Rappahannock County. Even in the short 17 odd
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