Missouri River Scientists Pulled [off] Project

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031106/ap_on_go_pr_wh/river_fight_1

WASHINGTON - The long-running dispute over management of the nation's longest river took another twist when the Bush administration yanked government scientists off a project to study the waterway's ecosystem.



The team had been on the job for years and was within weeks of producing what could have been its final report. Conservation groups criticized last week's unreported decision to remove the scientists, which they said was to protect business interests at the expense of the Endangered Species Act.


The move may block changes to the Missouri River's flow, because the scientists had ordered the switch. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has resisted changing river operations but is under a December deadline to come up with a new plan that meets requirements of the Endangered Species Act.


A different team of scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will say whether the corps can avoid major changes — such as a previously ordered switch to a more natural spring rise and low summer flow — and remain in compliance with the act.

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Just like they did with the EPA air quality report following 9-11.

How rich do they need to make thier buddies? They change science and facts probably more often than they change their underwear. Just when I think they can't disgust me anymore BAM, I'm disgusted.

The more outrages they commit, the more they get away with as people trying to stop them are completely overwhelmed by the barrage of insanity and lies and utter disregard for anything other than profit.

related assault on the environment here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=202302
EPA Reviews Air Pollution Investigations

remind them that the bushies require no facts, and in fact, constantly suppress the truth... they just force everything they want to happen.

them in front of them for sure.

if most people knew the significance of it. Based on years of growth on the river and the amount of warm water (global warming anyone?) certain species of fish and other aquatic life are seriously suffering and it will effect the entire ecosystem.

One of the endangered species is a kind of sturgeon (I believe) that is used for its eggs to market as caviar. A cheap alternative for folks who can't afford a $50 jar of the Russian kind. Well, the sturgeon are not being allowed to have a chance to reproduce because they are being killed off in large numbers (overfished, if you will) and this again affects all life forms in the riverway.

I wish people knew more enough about this to get outraged. It isn't just a snub to the environment by the Bush administration. This is really some serious shit.

As a scientist, I feel bad for those who worked on this project so long only be to stifled. I hope they decide to vote DEM! :)

replace them with some more "corporate scientists".

It's close to my heart being just miles from the river, and though I don't fish it as much these days, I would love to see a natural river system.

What we have for those who haven't seen it, is a big fucking drainage ditch, channelized to maintain a constant depth and flow, the excuse for this is to make barge traffic on the river easy and to cut the flooding.

It makes the farmers happy, it makes barge operaters happy, for everyone else it sucks. You wouldn't believe the crap I've seen these poor starving farmers polute the river with. Chemicals, pestisides, their container arew dumped into the nearest drainage ditch, too make their way into the river as soon as it rains.

It's sickening to be sitting on the river bank watching a plastic atrizine jug float past. We're running out of time to help many of the river's inhabitants, and I back the plan to return a natural flow, albeit for just a short time. These damn farmers vote reptile, because some jackass farmer with more land backs the puke, then moan and groan and bitch when they get the knife shoved in their back. Fuck a bunch of starving farmers.

This is helping the chemical industry, the barge traffic industry, they are way the fuck down on the list, yet they scream the loudest. Only farmers with land bordering the river would be affected and that's a very small minority.

It used to be one could see barges on the river everyday, now however, one can sit on the bank and wait a week to see a barge, this is just like everything else this misadministration has done, ill planned, and for the benefit of political contributers.