Last year, State Senator Joe Addabbo and Assembly Member Stacy Pheffer-Amato passed legislation to extend sunsetting environmental protections in place for the Bay:
In his veto statement, Cuomo said the legislation would change the criteria for fill Jamaica Bay borrow pits to comply with the federal criteria for the unrestricted ocean dumping of dredged material, which is not applicable to Jamaica Bay.
Under this bill, the Department of Conservation would be required to utilize more restrictive, and costly federal ocean dumping criteria to test the materials instead of DEC’s existing standard, and further, the legislation would make this enhanced standard permanent, Cuomo continued.
“The increased costs and time associated with the bill’s required fill standards will impact the availability of applicants with high-quality material for use as fill, which is critical for the restoration of these pits. This bill would make the procurement of this material, and in turn, the achievement of revitalization goals for Jamaica Bay extremely challenging, if not halt restoration altogether.”
Translation: We have to further contaminate the Bay in order to save it.
The bill was reintroduced and passed again, but the outcome was the same.
GOVERNOR CUOMO VETOES JAMAICA BAY PROTECTION BILL ! Looks like Governor Cuomo has vetoed the Jamaica Bay Protection...
Posted by Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers on Friday, November 27, 2020
This session, if the bill is passed again, it will likely survive Andrew "follow the science" Cuomo as there is now a veto-proof majority in the Senate.
13 comments:
Speechless. What an ignorant fool.
Can someone name the politicians that voted for this moronic Bill to get passed. And let's look a little deeper why all the sudden Cuomo wants to do this you know when it's not about thegelt, it's about the gelt. So where is the infamous Alexandria ocasio-cortez act and her Green Team projects and all that other nonsense why isn't she condemning this type of an action look pollution is pollution dumping is dumping.
Cuomo could strangle a litter of puppies on live TV and democrats will still vote for him.
Daily reminder that Joe Biden is not your president !
Moe said...
“Democrats are oblivious”
In other news, the sky is blue...
The movie Idiocracy is, day by day, becoming reality.
I'm confused, did the materials in the "borrow pits" originally come from Jamaica Bay, or elsewhere? Is the controversy about whether that material could be placed back in without some sort of cleaning or inspection process?
Why were the borrow pits dug in the first place?
Anonymous said...
Cuomo could strangle a litter of puppies on live TV and democrats will still vote for him.
What’s worse is that the press wouldn’t even report that he did that.
@warp10
You really should sue the school you went to for abuse. You'll be rich.
Unless you took the short bus every morning.
What’s worse is that the press wouldn’t even report that he did that.
Because their bosses were regulars at Epstein's island. Blackmail.
Jamaica Bay? These corrupt clowns care nothing about the environment.
Read and weep.
UN Climate Agency Slapped With Corruption Allegations
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/un-climate-agency-slapped-corruption-allegations
Great Thunberg the face of the Global Carbon Trading/Tax scam.
CCP Virus anyone?
Anonymous said...
Cuomo could strangle a litter of puppies on live TV and democrats will still vote for him.
Saturday, November 28, 2020
It's what criminally insane people do. The fact that such people are allowed to vote makes any election a farce.
This is what little shit dictators do !
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