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Related: About this forumRoll back local powers to regulate mines and blasting, GOP lawmakers say
http://journaltimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/e73929f6-bb95-5e84-95cc-2a6615052b9c.htmlTwo Republican state legislators are pushing for a far-reaching new law that would vastly diminish local government power to regulate rock blasting and frac sand mining.
If enacted, the statute would roll back local control of mine reclamation efforts, pollution monitoring and even excavation and disposal of soil and gravel by state highway contractors.
Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, on Wednesday circulated an email asking lawmakers to co-sponsor the 14-page bill that he said would provide more "certainty" for mining operations.
More than 115 frac sand mines and processing plants have appeared in Wisconsin in the last two years, and some local governments are resisting, in part because of potential health hazards from silica dust and effects on wells and roads.
Tiffany and Rep. Joan Ballweg, R-Markesan, want a law that would limit the ability of towns to use health and safety ordinances to regulate mining. Instead, town officials' only option would be zoning ordinances that require approval of their county boards. But the bill also would roll back the scope of local zoning authority, according to analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
"It's really shocking," Kimberlee Wright, executive director of Midwest Environmental Advocates in Madison said Thursday. "Local people should have the right to protect the health and safety of their community."
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Roll back local powers to regulate mines and blasting, GOP lawmakers say (Original Post)
hue
Oct 2013
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I heard this on the radio on the way home this a fuckin' travesty in the making.
Ellipsis
Oct 2013
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Of course they are. The people are demanding it!
Well, the people who fund Republican campaigns anyway.
Thanks hue.
unionthug777
(740 posts)2. really ??!!!!!
why? why? why?
why do the repukes want to destroy everything??????
why do the repukes want to destroy everything??????
dembotoz
(16,820 posts)3. lose of local control should be winning issue for us
from placement of cell towers
to mining regs
to education
after the years of bs about local control and it is the same bastards
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)4. I heard this on the radio on the way home this a fuckin' travesty in the making.
This can't go thru.
hue
(4,949 posts)5. GOP modus operandi is to ram legislation through ASAP-before the public realizes what's happening