Comments on: Water Works Committee Votes to Sell to Highest Bidder http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/08/water-board-committee-votes-to-sell-to-highest-bidder/ A Wide Open Weblog for Big News, the Big Picture Wed, 23 May 2012 14:44:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: admin http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/08/water-board-committee-votes-to-sell-to-highest-bidder/comment-page-1/#comment-3308 admin Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:18:09 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/08/19/water-board-committee-votes-to-sell-to-highest-bidder/#comment-3308 Best I can tell, there's not any here : ) In retrospect, this might not be so bad. Forever Wild could not have out bid the private good old boys on this one anyway. By holding their feet to the fire, major environmental concessions were obtained. Now onto fighting the coal mine, coal ash, and all the other major battles that lie ahead -- like health care and global climate change... Best I can tell, there’s not any here : )

In retrospect, this might not be so bad. Forever Wild could not have out bid the private good old boys on this one anyway. By holding their feet to the fire, major environmental concessions were obtained.

Now onto fighting the coal mine, coal ash, and all the other major battles that lie ahead — like health care and global climate change…

]]> By: Dan Fulton http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/08/water-board-committee-votes-to-sell-to-highest-bidder/comment-page-1/#comment-3307 Dan Fulton Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:08:46 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/08/19/water-board-committee-votes-to-sell-to-highest-bidder/#comment-3307 "Family farm" for Beautiful T-shirts and Bingo? This is most disappointing but expected. Where is REAL vision and leadership in Alabama??? “Family farm” for Beautiful T-shirts and Bingo?
This is most disappointing but expected.
Where is REAL vision and leadership in Alabama???

]]> By: admin http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/08/water-board-committee-votes-to-sell-to-highest-bidder/comment-page-1/#comment-3306 admin Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:04:01 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/08/19/water-board-committee-votes-to-sell-to-highest-bidder/#comment-3306 The heightened public pressure brought on by Web and TV coverage of the story over the past couple of weeks obviously had an impact on the proceedings. In the first meeting, when we were the only press represented, the board took the position that they had no say in what happened to the property after the sale. Today, after restrictive covenant deeds were added to the bid contracts as conditions, conservation of the land dominated the discussion by all parties. The heightened public pressure brought on by Web and TV coverage of the story over the past couple of weeks obviously had an impact on the proceedings. In the first meeting, when we were the only press represented, the board took the position that they had no say in what happened to the property after the sale.

Today, after restrictive covenant deeds were added to the bid contracts as conditions, conservation of the land dominated the discussion by all parties.

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