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IADEMO2004

(5,557 posts)
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 07:49 AM Jun 2012

Aerial surveillance is OK for other people but not Nebraska feedlots.

Nebraska delegation wants EPA to explain this horrrrrible intrusion.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120530/NEWS01/705309904



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LINCOLN — A spy in the sky over Nebraska and Iowa has gotten under the hides of some livestock producers and their representatives in Washington.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s aerial photo surveillance of livestock feeding operations in both states flew under the radar for nearly two years.

But now the flyover program, conducted to help enforce the Clean Water Act, has prompted a demand for answers from all five members of Nebraska’s congressional delegation.

The delegation delivered a joint letter Tuesday to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, listing 25 questions about the legality of the surveillance and the privacy rights of business owners. Although the letter stopped short of calling for an end to the flyovers, the two senators and three representatives want to know more about their purpose.


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Poor guys just never dreamed it would be their turn some day. My "Way better half " said " Well if you aren't doing anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about" and then did her evil laugh.

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Robb

(39,665 posts)
2. I did some research once where an aerial photo would've been useful.
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 08:03 AM
Jun 2012

Turns out the Ag Dept. had some oldies. They even had the obscure bit of land I wanted, and the right year: 1961.

THEY'RE SPYING ON YOUR CORN! What idiots.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
4. Remote sensing outside visible light reveals a variety of crop problems...
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 08:47 AM
Jun 2012

I gotta think that the big commodities brokerages buy commercially available surveillance for the aglands of most nations.


Robb

(39,665 posts)
7. Well, in the 60s they were just takin' pictures.
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 08:57 AM
Jun 2012

But yeah, even then it was to keep track of what was being grown, how it was doing, where they might grow more.

IADEMO2004

(5,557 posts)
5. County Auditor here has all property on search-able web page.
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 08:51 AM
Jun 2012

You can see all cars at my house Thanksgiving day a few years ago!

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
3. and if the drones found that they were growing marijuana ... would they be
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 08:14 AM
Jun 2012

so vocal in their opposition?

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
8. Barbara Streisand had similar issues...
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 09:22 AM
Jun 2012

and lost too. The 1% really do not want the rest of us knowing how they live and what they do.

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