Friday, November 11, 2011

WHY ISN'T RAMOS INVESTIGATING NURSERY PRODUCTS & the COUNTY OFFICIALS INVOLVED??

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Nursery Products (the proponent of the sludge-to-agricultural-grade-composting operation) argues in a declaration filed in Case No. BCVBS 09950 they cannot pay their legal obligations to the Center for Biological Diversity [an attorney fee judgment (reduced to a settlement agreement) arising from the CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) litigation involving the sludge to agricultural grade compost operation they want to put upwind from Hinkley and Barstow].
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There is apparently a judgment debtor exam scheduled--that should be interesting!!
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The issues as Blogger Bob sees it ???
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1. Why did the County approve this apparently undercapitalized operation dealing with waste products? [if there is a spill or a release of contaminants, they don't have apparently the money, so did they lie in their application to the county, not that Mitzelfelt who told the Sun he wanted to find Nursery Products a location in Hinkley after they got booted out of Adelanto, would care??]
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2. Who is paying for their lawyers to constantly fight this? [since paying legal fees is not what their business lender (reference to a "Small Business Association" loan)can pay--who are the shadowy characters behind this? Isn't it illegal to use surrogates in the permit application process where public health and safety issues are involved and financial capacity is a major issue??
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3. Who is really behind this sludge dumping operation? Someone has to have paid for the multiple sets of lawyers hired and if the HelpHinkley.org and Center for Biological Diversity lawyers' fees were roughly $400,000 for one set of lawyers, who is paying Nursery Products' three sets of lawyers (fees could be in the millions)??
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4. Who on the Board of Supervisors has taken campaign contributions from Meberg, Nursery Products or their lawyers in exchange for their votes (Supervisor Rutherford voted to approve Nursery Products' conditional use permit admitting she had not read the application package or the oppositions to it, so maybe she is just stupid and thinks its ok to require sludge to composting operations to be covered and biofiltered in her part of the court, but not for the High Desert)?
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5. If Nursery Products can't pay their legal bills now, is it a stretch to imagine they can ever run this right!

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