2. Are the posted plans big enough?
3. Introduction.
a. The circumstances.
b. Governor’s Contact Information.
c. Specific Information.
d. More Details.
1. Deadline is Monday.
Governor Patrick appears to have until Monday, August 11 to approve or reject the destruction of hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive in Cambridge.
2. Are the posted plans big enough?
I have long had problems with using too large files.
In the current leafleting, the leaflets include a link to the plan posted here at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html. Scroll down when you get there to see the plans..
The one real defect I see is that the bill number in the report is the wrong one. I have corrected that by an update at the beginning..
There are a lot of individual plans. Each in the original runs about a meg. The posted copies were reduced to half a meg.
If anybody has problems with the posted plans, please give me a ring at boblat@yahoo.com, and I will upgrade the postings.
Thanks.
3. Introduction.
This section is intended to provide a short version of the problem. It repeats in short form many posts. I am attempting to provide a succinct condensation of many posts in the past.
A good index is the Charles River White Geese page on facebook. Those postings are intended to be condensations of the blog posts with link. Thus, you can scroll down and see what looks interesting.
The main reason for this post is to provide useful information in addition to the question I have posted above, which constitutes new material. Basically, I had intended to post larger versions, but my impression is that these posts are fine.
The one caveat on the tree destruction plans is that the trees to be destroyed are shaded. Additionally, if you click on a particular plan, you will get a blow up which looks very satisfying to me.
a. The circumstances.
Last Friday, Governor Patrick of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts received the Environment Bond Bill from the legislature. This bill would destroy hundreds of excellent trees on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, USA along with the distressingly usual harm to resident animals
The above photos are to a key grove which consists of trees small than perhaps half the threatened trees. The bigger trees are too large for viable photographs. These are in and out of season photos to give you a feel for the corruption of the plans. The Charles River is on the left in the first photo, looking west, and on the right in the second photo, looking east.
This grove is perhaps half a mile east of the ghetto which has been forced on the Charles River White Geese. It is located at that point where Memorial Drive is a divided highway to the east and an undivided highway to the west. The destruction numbers are 75 to 80%.
The third photo is of a family of Charles River White Geese, the 33 year resident gaggle which is the direct subject of accelerating and heartless abuse from entities which lie of their own environmental sainthood.
b. Governor’s Contact Information.
The governor has a very short period of time to decide whether or not to veto and he has a line item veto.
Please contact him.
He may be contacted on the net by his email form at http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact. His office may be contacted by telephone at 888-870-7770. This is a free call from Massachusetts.
This is the Environment Bond Bill. The terrible stuff is given the euphemism “Historical Parkways”. The latest bill number I have is the House’s predecessor, H4009. The House of Representatives called for destruction money of $32 million in H4009, §2C, 2890-7020.
c. Specific Information.
The current destruction is in an area where the state bureaucrats have a goal of killing off or driving away as many animal residents as they can get away with. This will be the latest in a series of heartless abuse of these beautiful animals. The public position has been “no intent to harm.”
Prior attacks on the Charles River White Geese are readily correctable. The destruction was cofunded by the state and city, and the project was managed by the person who is currently serving as City Manager. Lies of omission and commission have been normal, along with other corrupt tactics.
When the bureaucrats tried to get Obama moneys to destroy these same Memorial Drive trees in 2009, they lied to the Boston Globe that these hundreds of trees were diseased.
I have published the destruction plans at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.
Please scroll down to get to the plans. The files are horribly large and I hesitate to keep loading the same massive amount of data. The bill number mentioned is the prior number assigned to this destruction.
The most recent identification I have is the relevant portion of the bill at the House of Representatives Level is House Bill H4009, §2C, 2890-7020, in the amount of $32 million.
Here is a photo of the railroad bridge under the BU Bridge which is key. The local transit authority did a silly study on this bridge to determine if it could hold an off ramp to Cambridge of I90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike). If you look straight ahead, you can see a green overhead highway sign. The study proved an off ramp was possible.
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d. More Details.
I have done a lot of reports on the ongoing outrages.
The simplest way to find things is to go to facebook - Charles River White Geese and go down the list.
The facebook page consists of shorter versions of these blog reports with links to the blog I question.
