Having apparently despoiled all there is to despoil within the law or, to be more accurate, within the see-no-evil boundaries ignored by DNREC on a daily basis, the big business boys are now targeting Delaware’s Coastal Zone Act. Here is the article from the Delaware Business Magazine, titled ‘Modernizing the Coastal Zone Act,’ that a wonderful tipster shared with me. You see, the CZA has created a ‘logjam’:
Whether it was meant to eventually force manufacturing and industry to “wither on the vine” or to balance the types of allowable companies with keeping our natural resources pristine, it has created a logjam in the process. Regardless of the intent of the legislation, it is clear (to the Chamber) that Delaware’s Coastal Zone Act must be modernized in order for Delaware to grow.
You already see the false meme, don’t you? The implication that perhaps, just perhaps, such radical environmentalists as DuPont Company alumni former Gov. Russell Peterson and former State Senator Andy Knox must have wanted to force manufacturing jobs to wither on the vine. Don’t worry, there’s more.
Per usual, the Chamber sets itself up as the alleged neutral arbiter:
As our jobs shift away from the chemical industry, Delaware must make itself as attractive as possible in order to bring new business to the state, and modernizing the Coastal Zone Act is a lynchpin to that success. To that end, the State Chamber will begin, and lead, the discussions and debate surrounding how to modernize the Coastal Zone Act.
You know, just how they began, and led, the discussions and debate surrounding balancing the state budget and setting up themselves as the biggest beneficiaries of their proposals.
And here is the straw man:
Delaware cannot afford to have its economic policy dictated by extreme or unreasonable elements of the environmental activist community if there is to be the future successful economic growth this state needs to survive.
The Chamber’s objectivity is in full view with that sentence.
Gee, I wonder whether Governor-In-Hiding Waiting John Carney can tear himself away from all that important congressional business to weigh in on this. We already pretty much know where Jack Markell stands.