Donklephant » Blog Archive » Cheney the environmentalist?

Cheney the environmentalist?

By Sean Aqui | Related entries in Environment, General Politics, News

Okay, he’s nothing of the sort. In their final installment in the Cheney series, the Washington Post tackles his environmental record. It’s not pretty.

We again see the same methodology: operating in secret, reaching down to the lowest levels of the bureaucracy to effect the policies he wants.

In this case, though, it’s hard to discern a guiding principle at work other than “in any conflict between the environment and business, business is always right.”

Actually, make that “businesses I care about.” Considering he helped destroy commercial fisheries in the Pacific Northwest in order to save a few politically-connected farmers farther upstream.

(Continued at Midtopia)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 and is filed under Environment, General Politics, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Cheney the environmentalist?”

Jim S Says:
June 27th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Of course Cheney cares about the environment. He wants to be remembered as someone who never met one he couldn’t destroy.

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website

NOTE TO COMMENTERS:

You must ALWAYS fill in the two word CAPTCHA below to submit a comment. And if this is your first time commenting on Donklephant, it will be held in a moderation queue for approval. Please don't resubmit the same comment a couple times. We'll get around to moderating it soon enough.

Also, sometimes even if you've commented before, it may still get placed in a moderation queue and/or sent to the spam folder. If it's just in moderation queue, it'll be published, but it may be deleted if it lands in the spam folder. My apologies if this happens but there are some keywords that push it into the spam folder.

One last note, we will not tolerate comments that disparage people based on age, sex, handicap, race, color, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry. We reserve the right to delete these comments and ban the people who make them from ever commenting here again.

Thanks for understanding and have a pleasurable commenting experience.