15 days ago:CX wrote:The guy who's in charge of this protest movement should look into lawyering up over the $25 million if nothing else. By hiring the crews to go out and tear the stuff up, they've already spent money that hasn't been approved yet by the taxpayers who are funding it. Play the money angle if nothing else.
BlacknBlue wrote:Failing that, have you called Greenpeace?
I wrote:Okay, I sent them the info. Go Greenpeace!
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Okay, here's an AMAZING update, and it's partly thanks to you guys letting me vent and encouraging my shite disturbing ways.
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Yesterday, I was feeling blue, as this was the latest news:
The city plans to sue a group of protesters to recover the costs of their interference in construction of the new Highway Interchange, the mayor says.
"It's trying to get money out of people who can't rub two nickels together, but we have to go after some of them," the mayor said yesterday.
City council is still negotiating with the province over who will bear the cost of a massive RCMP operation about two weeks ago in which an estimated 50 to 60 officers surrounded, and then cleared away, a tree-sit protest in the woods between the road and the highway in order to make way for the interchange.
That operation alone -- in which three protesters were charged -- could cost the municipality more than $100,000, the mayor said.
Well maybe, Mr. Mayor, you should have followed the
normal process then, instead of Goliath-ing your way in, all swashbuckly-like. He's close personal friends with the massive billionaires who are pushing this whole thing for their precious stupid nearby resort and golf course. They have had private meetings at his house. This is documented.
Greenpeace had never written back and I was feeling so blue.
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BUT THEN THIS MORNING.......GREENPEACE SHOWED UP!
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HA!It's all over the local radio. They're raising complete and total hell. Parking cars everywhere, interrupting the machines, etcetera.
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So, thanks
BnB.
Great idea. I never would have emailed them if you hadn't suggested it.