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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAerial 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 Agencys 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 Nebraskas 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.
randome
(34,845 posts)Robb
(39,665 posts)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)I gotta think that the big commodities brokerages buy commercially available surveillance for the aglands of most nations.
Robb
(39,665 posts)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)You can see all cars at my house Thanksgiving day a few years ago!
zbdent
(35,392 posts)so vocal in their opposition?
IADEMO2004
(5,557 posts)ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)and lost too. The 1% really do not want the rest of us knowing how they live and what they do.