[Green] Fwd: Discussion on Come Hell or High Water

[Adeline Bailey]

Also this, around 2:00. My phone is on its last legs. Ugh!

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From: Adeline Bailey <adesign at suddenlink.net>
Date: Aug 9, 2020 2:03 PM
Subject: Discussion on Come Hell or High Water
To: green at fuusm.org
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> Hello, friends,
> I am sorry we were unable to join the discussion audibly today. We were trying a laptop that Mike has been working on, and it wouldn't allow us to unmute.
> Most of what I would have contributed was mentioned, but I wanted to add a couple of things.
> - Like many of you, I viewed the movie through the lens of our actions to protect the Ohio River by protesting approval of the barge offloading site here.
> - Access to the USACE meeting was unfair to participants, even though I was pleased that USACE arranged even that much in response to our letters and questions. However, I agree that we'll just have to make more noise.
> - The webinar series Cindy mentioned is offered by Fair Shake Environmental Justice Legal Services. One of the speakers at the "public" meeting works for that firm (he said something about a provision in the 1899 legislation that could pertain), and he had posted info about the web series on MOVCA's Facebook page. I sent a link to their events page, where you can sign upif you want to. (One or more of the sessions might be of interest in relation to our sustainability forum.)
> - USACE won't be responsible once stuff is off the river, so as Vic Elam pointed out, there's nothing they will do to protect aquifers. In addition to protecting the river, maybe that's what we need to work on. Perhaps protecting our local well fields at Indian Acres is a good starting point, and could be inspiration to educate ourselves about aquifers.
> - Fair Shake has been working with the groups protesting approval of the barge offload sites on the Ohio. I'll bet they would have access to info about aquifers as well.
> - The movie was well done, but it seemed to end abruptly with another huge challenge confronting Turkey Creek's environmental and historic preservation warrior. I suppose that's the truth of how things work out far too much of the time, but he wasn't giving up, and neither should we.
> Adeline
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> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
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