Despite assurances by town officials that construction was being done in accordance with the law, environmentalists have vowed to halt construction of and seek demolition of six villas to be constructed near sea caves in the town of Peyia, Corsica. According to Cyprus Mail, the controversy surrounds the villas location that environmentalists claim is near… Read More Environmentalists Ratchet Up Attacks on Corsica Villas
Tucker Carlson interviewed Edward Poitevent II on his Fox News program tonight. The Poitevent family is fighting federal regulators who threatened to impose millions of dollars of fines on them during 2013 for developing a plot of land the family owns. The bureaucrats claim doing so threaten the habitat of the dusky gopher frog which… Read More Fighting the Feds Over Frogs
Journalist John Stossel reveals how endangered species laws lead to perverse incentives for governments to restrict private property use and what property owners do to continue to be able to use their land. Stossel interviews an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity who is one of many environmentalist groups that sue government agencies to… Read More War on the Little Guy: Endangered Species
A controversial rule on water pollution allowed the agency to micromanage private land use.
While animal rights is still chic among Hollywood celebrities and certain academic circles, to Tibor Machan in his book Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature’s Favorite the idea that animals as on par with and deserving the same rights as humans as ridiculous. Only beings capable of deliberation and choice (i.e. reason) deserve rights,… Read More Book Review: “Putting Humans First”
Kohler’s inc. owns a 247-acre piece of land that overlooks Lake Michigan located in Wilson, Wisconsin on the outskirts of Sheboygan. The company would like to develop the land into a high efficacy golf course but when area residents and environmentalists found out about it, opposition to the proposal mounted. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal… Read More Kohler’s golf course plan hits environmental road block
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