Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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A Brief "Forever"

This article appalled me for several reasons: 1) It shows the damage that can be done when mineral development is allowed on someone else's private property, against the landowner's wishes. 2) The way they decided to resolve the issue was to seek removal of the conservation easement, instead of trying to get the energy company booted off the land for damaging the conservation usage. 3) It sets an extremely dangerous precedent, in which "forever" in a legal context can mean "until someone feels like changing it."

So many Americans have no grasp of deep time. They aren't even good at planning to the end of their own lifetimes. *fume*
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  • 2 comments
christinaathena

christinaathena

March 13 2008, 04:54:57 UTC 13 years ago

Well, "forever" is just begging to be violated. You can't possibly expect "forever" to hold (just ask the Indians about "forever" in treaties ...). Still, just a few years after the fact? And whatever happened to the principle that you own everything underneath your land?
je_reviens

je_reviens

March 15 2008, 02:06:58 UTC 13 years ago

a really great novel on this subject is called The Divide by Nicholas Sparks. Just finished it. So very sad.