More hypocrisy coming from the Cambridge City Council, ACCELERATING environmental outrages coming WHILE piously proclaiming sainthood.
I am going to do this report in two parts. First the basics. Second, I will document in detail if I have time. The reality is that a very major time crunch is applied to people who want to stand up to outrages in preparation for City Council meetings.
I can and repeatedly do provide plenty of details, but not with this time limit. Each such report takes WEEKS.
URL to City Manager agenda is in section 1.C.
1. Pending outrages
A. Cambridge City Council is considering
(1) NET-ZERO plans supposedly plans preventing destruction of the environment. But the plans do NOT END OR EVEN MENTION destruction of the publicly owned parts of the environment,
City Manager Communications 1 and 4 on Monday, January 24 agenda; City Council order 5 on Monday January 24 agenda.
and
(2) they are yelling at the other guy about firs, WITHOUT ending their own heartless abuse of free beings.
City Council order 5.
B. Department of Conservation and Recreation concentrating on destruction west of Harvard Square THIS time.
Cambridge Day Report on the latest DCR / Cambridge outrage: https://www.cambridgeday.com/2022/01/17/state-brings-back-its-plans-for-memorial-drive-unannounced-and-changed-without-explanation/
I have repeatedly provided the Cambridge City Council with the official plans and relevant photos at Magazine Beach.
Here is my fact sheet on this latest outrage from the then NINE members of the Cambridge City Council. It is not accomplished yet, but the City Council does not want to know about the City Council’s record, and the last thing the City Council will do is reverse yet another outrage of the Cambridge City Council.
C. City Council Agenda for January 24, 2022.
Full official details.
https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3568&Inline=True.
2. Appropriate Action for Cambridge City Council.
A. End all plans and funding to destroy yet more trees and animal habitat and river water on the Charles River, and stop PAYING the Charles River Poisoner to do “environmental” work.
Here is my video documenting the destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges in January 2016. The city council’s “response” was to yell at circuses passing through the city on public roads about the circuses’ supposed abuse of animals, while totally ignoring the heartless abuse of animals by the DCR and Cambridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.
Just as in January 2016, the DCR is destroying Cherry Trees, as many as they can get away all the time.
Here is my letter of June 6, 2016 passing on the DCR’s official filing of destruction plans to the Cambridge Conservation Commission, along with relevant photos. Repeatedly provided and repeatedly ignored by the Cambridge City Council while voting to make things worse, VOTES AS SECRET AS POSSIBLE, offset by nonstop nonsense yelling at other guys bragged about.
http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/ar1.htm.
B. Stop the lobbying of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to add to their rebuild of I90, the Massachusetts Turnpike, destructive projects which impact Cambridge. Frequently repeating attempts which failed in Cambridge because of public opposition.
C. End the use of poisons on the banks of the Charles and in other animal habitat.
D. Stop starving / poisoning the free animals whether on land, in the water, or in the air, especially the Charles River White Geese. Allow the Charles River White to return without constraints to UNPOISONED playing fields at Magzine Beach which have been their homes and food for most of the last 40 years. Unpoisoned maintenance survived for the better part of a Century.
Poison maintenance has failed but is being expanded. In spite of the obviously failure including the poisoning of the Charles River, the DCR has refused to deny plans to use poisons on open space created as part of the I90 Rebuild project.
E. Reduce the other outrages of the past twenty years.
F. Petition the State Legislature to replace the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation on the Charles River with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
G. Stop yelling at the other guy to hide the extreme environmental irresponsibility of the City of Cambridge.
H. Stop HIRING AND PAYING the woman who poisoned the Charles River (using DCR and Trump moneys) to work on Charles River “environmental issues.”.
Here is a photo of the work she did rerouting the poisons dumped on the Magazine Beach playing fields into the Charles River.
Here is a composite photo of the sign the DCR has posted bragging that the poison drainage ditches protect the Charles from the POISONS BEING INTRODUCED INTO THE ENVIRONMENT BY DCR AND THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL, subordinate photos from Phil Barber, composite by me.
3. Speaking.
Taken from the city’s webpage.
Follow the link here: https://www.cambridgema.gov/publiccomment to register to speak.
4. Details.
I can dream of having the time, YET AGAIN, to repeat the outrages from this reprehensible and hypocritical city council. I suggest looking at the Charles River White Geese page on Facebook, or looking at The Charles River White Geese Blog at charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com in the meantime. I spend weeks doing a modest write up of the accelerating outrages.
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