You can't make this stuff up. RI Department of Environmental Management, the State agency charged with safeguarding the environment, is now suing Tiverton. Our offense? Our Town Council passed an ordinance regulating fishing tournaments on Stafford Pond, a major source of drinking water. That's right, RIDEM is fighting a community trying to protect its environment! Why? No doubt these tournaments are a source of revenue for RIDEM, so instead of putting in place sensible regulations themselves, they sue a community for trying to do so. After all, what could possibly go wrong with unregulated boats and fuel on an area's drinking water supply?
The next time someone asks you how far beyond rational RI State government has gotten, you need only point them to the Sakonnet River Bridge tolls and RIDEM suing to stop a town from protecting its envirnonment. Hard to believe we have State (or quasi-State) agencies putting their financial needs above the good of the people they serve.
http://www.heraldnews.com/newsnow/x273440789/DEM-files-suit-against-Tiverton-to-overturn-Stafford-Pond-ordinance
Brian Medeiros
Tiverton, RI
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